Alan Ladd Quotes
It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.
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I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
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I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.
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It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.
