Carl Albert Quotes

I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.

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• I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
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• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
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• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

  

  Samantha Power
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• I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.

  

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• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

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• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

  

  Young Jeezy
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• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
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• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

  FKA twigs
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• Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.

  

  Kate Mara
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• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
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• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
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• Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.

  

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• Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

  

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• I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• It is a little weird now, going over to Heath's place. It's like, 'Hi Heath, hi Nomes.' Very strange!

  

  Martin Henderson
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• We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.

  

  Seth Godin
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• O, to have the soul bathed all day long in this thought, " as the pebble in the willow brook " until the words come like the tears, because the heart is full, and we cannot help it; to feel, in the darkest hour, that there is an unseen Spectator whose eyes rest on us like morning on the flowers; and that in the severest sorrow, we can sink into a presence full of love and sympathy, deeper than ever breathed from earth or sky or loving hearts— a presence in which all fears and anxieties melt away as ice-crystals in the warm ocean. This is heaven.

  

  Edward Thomson
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• I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

  

  Ayad Akhtar
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• Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

  

  Vance Havner
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• I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.

  

  Carl Albert
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