Alexander the Great Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.
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In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
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It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy.
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All my children inherited perfect pitch.
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When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
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The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
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Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
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As difficult as my story is, it's nothing compared to the people I've worked with. And so I just want to do everything I can to make sure that America continues to be a land of opportunity and hope for people and refuge for people from all over the world.
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The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.
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Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.
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I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.
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I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.
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My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.
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Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.
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Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was.
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What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.
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The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
