Alan Coren Quotes
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.
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In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
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I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.
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At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
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. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.
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As the liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Shall die fighting or live free, And down with all kings but King Ludd!
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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
