Ralph Allen Quotes
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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If I wanna be president, I probably can.
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I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.
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Shutterstock's ability to cultivate a healthy and expanding marketplace for both customers and contributors remains a key competitive advantage and a crucial component of our sustained growth.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
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Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
