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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Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.
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I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I've grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into the West on a high horse, you pretty soon end up in a pile of manure.
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Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.
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It's truly an honor to get to write Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman and all those great people, but when you can take something that's not well thought of and make it something that people do think highly of, that's much more gratifying, I think.
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A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.