Alec Berg Quotes
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.
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Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.
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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
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Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!
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Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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There's a reason there are 50,000 cop shows and firefighter shows: Watching them is cool.
