Lamar Alexander Quotes
When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
Quotes to Explore
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I love so many styles of music.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.
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The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
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Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.
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I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
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When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
