Samuel Alexander Quotes
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.
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My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
