Alek Wek Quotes
When the militias came to Wau, they would blast out 'Thriller' as they moved down the dirt streets.
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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
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Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
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I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.
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It was not until months after going vegetarian that I started really learning about all of the health benefits.
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I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.
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Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.
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When the militias came to Wau, they would blast out 'Thriller' as they moved down the dirt streets.
