Alec Issigonis Quotes
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.
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My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
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Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
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I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
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We have peered into a new world and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined. Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way.
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It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the 'dark horse' in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
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First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
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I don't think estates are grim places.
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Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.
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A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.
