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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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don't want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.
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I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.
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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.
