Alex Cox Quotes
Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.
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I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
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I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.
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Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.
