Alcaeus Quotes
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I just sing. But I have a fun hobby: I love to do archery. I'm pretty good on target. I'm not sure about the distances - maybe only 7 or 10 feet, so far, but I've scored the bull's eye several times, but usually always hit the target.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
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If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
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Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
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If you have the opportunity to go be an early employee at a company that's just going crazy, and you believe it's the next Facebook or Google, you should go join that company.
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American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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All skills are learnable.
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The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.
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'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
