Alan Cranston Quotes
Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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I was very rebellious.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.
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Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
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This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
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Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.
