Klayton Albert (Klayton) Quotes
If anything, technology has brought out the darker and more sinister side of humanity.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
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The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
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I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.
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If anything, technology has brought out the darker and more sinister side of humanity.
