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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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
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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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You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.
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I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources.
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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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It's such an intense thing to make a film.
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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.
