Alec Waugh Quotes
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
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I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.
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To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.
