Alec Waugh Quotes
We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time.
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.
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It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter.
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We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time.
