Alan Bates Quotes
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
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I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States.
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Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.
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The very pink of perfection.
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A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is a community that exists half alive.
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Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend. We were the ones that worked with Saddam Hussein. The United States worked with bin Laden.
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Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community... If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.
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In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
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The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
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Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.
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I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.
