Alan Stern Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.
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The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.
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Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?
