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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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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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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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
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I put some thought in it and decided to come on down and see if I can't help this team in some shape and form to get into the playoffs.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.
