Alan Brien Quotes
The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
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I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.
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In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.
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If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you'll do it again.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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I have been extraordinarily fortunate in my life, luckier than almost anybody on this planet. And whenever I ran into challenges, my parents did everything they could so that I could maximize my own potential.
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Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.
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Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.
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The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
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The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.
