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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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 great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
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For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
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I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.
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I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
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Freedom is not an accident. Progress is not an accident. Democracy is not an accident. These are things that have to be fought for. You’re part of that legacy. They must be won. And they’ve got to be tended to constantly and defended without fail.
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You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
