Erol Alkan Quotes
I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
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Always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
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Ch'un almo gaudio, un così gran contentoNon potrebbe comprare oro né argento.
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.
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The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.
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Endings don't have anything to do with what your movie is about. Now, there is an emotional climax, there's an emotional resolution that is 100 percent important. If I get that wrong, get your money back.
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In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.
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'Paranormal Activity' was the first of our independently made/studio-released films. It was also the ultimate low-budget high-concept movie, which is what we are always looking for. 'Paranormal Activity' was the genesis of our model, of which I am so proud.
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What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?
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An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We discuss life as equals, learn from each other and strive together to improve our lives.
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Management brings the best and worst out of me, and I think you have to find a distinction between what is work and what isn't work, because football can take over your life.
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I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
