Alan Garner Quotes
Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
