Alex Chilton Quotes
Being emotional people and being in our 20s, we couldn't see a reconciliation ever happening at that time. It seemed so over. It seemed like the energy in it was completely played out. We didn't want to leave the door open. In pruning it back so viciously we didn't think it would grow again. But here it is growing again.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.
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I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
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If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
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I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer (slurring): Aboard airplane Stewardess, could you get me another drink?
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I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
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We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Being emotional people and being in our 20s, we couldn't see a reconciliation ever happening at that time. It seemed so over. It seemed like the energy in it was completely played out. We didn't want to leave the door open. In pruning it back so viciously we didn't think it would grow again. But here it is growing again.
