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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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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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
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My brother had written 'Ocean Eyes,' and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way - if you can't dance to a song, it's not a song.
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Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'
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It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.
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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.
