Albert William Upton Quotes
I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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When people ask if I have any advice for young designers, the best advice I could ever give to somebody is to work for someone else, when you are playing with someone else's money. It is very expensive when you start doing it on your own.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.
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I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.
