Alan Bates Quotes
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
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Schooling is so important.
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The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.
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Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.
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I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I have a boulder on my shoulder.
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But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.
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You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
