Alan Wilder Quotes
My brothers are five and seven years older respectively so they teased me a bit when they were bored, but I think I was too young to be really bothered with.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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I don't believe I should be out running for another office instead of running my office.
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When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
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But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.
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And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.
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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
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The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
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I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.
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My favorite single line from the Quran is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.
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A miracle is a single mom who works two jobs to care for her kids and still helps them with their homework at night. A miracle is a child donating all the money in their piggy bank to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. That's where you'll find the hand and face of God.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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My brothers are five and seven years older respectively so they teased me a bit when they were bored, but I think I was too young to be really bothered with.
