Alain Robert Quotes
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I think twerking is overrated.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
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A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.
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Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure.
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When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
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We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.
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Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.
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I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'
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Sex has become much more competitive, with the girls becoming sort of predators as well. It's ferocious.
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At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that I could really be proud of rather than trying to get a one-episode part on 'Modern Family' or something.
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Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.
