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 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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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.
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I think everybody has their own process as a leader, and I think for me it's ever-evolving.
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You have Palestinians living in Israel with full political rights. You don’t have discriminatory laws against them, I mean not letting them swim on certain beaches or anything like that. I think it's unfair to call Israel an apartheid state. If Kerry did so, I think he made a mistake.
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I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
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Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
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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.
