Alan Ladd Quotes
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake.
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Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
