Alan King Quotes
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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I have a couture body.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.
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Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!
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DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.
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His descent was like nightfall.
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My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
