Al Jourgensen (Allen David Jourgensen) Quotes
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
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I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
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'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.
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I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for me, certain books, just by reading a phrase I feel I can write.
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I don't think I've ever done anything professionally.
