Alan Schaaf Quotes
The Imgur community, as a whole, is generally a lot more positive and a lot more funny than other communities.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
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So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?
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The Imgur community, as a whole, is generally a lot more positive and a lot more funny than other communities.
