Alan Jackson Quotes
I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I am a journalist.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
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You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just finished the war or the politicians who just rendered glorious service to the country.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
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But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.
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I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
