Alan K. Simpson Quotes
If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
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I am in love with Los Angeles.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.
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If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
