Alan Hansen Quotes
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I am a Zionist.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song grounded in reality moves me because I don't feel like I'm getting the whole story. Songs are made to exist in and of themselves, like a great James Jones or Robert Louis Stevenson novel - they're not autobiographical, and yet there's a reality in every single page. It's real life of the imagination.
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I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.
