Alan Greenspan Quotes
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.
Quotes to Explore
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
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Who wouldn't want to be Frank Sinatra's son?
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To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.
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When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.
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When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.
