Alan Greenspan Quotes
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.
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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 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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Who wouldn't want to be Frank Sinatra's son?
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.
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I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.
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I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.
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There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.
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Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.
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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.
