Alan Rudolph Quotes
Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
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Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.
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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.
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Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.
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Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.
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Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.
