Alex Cox Quotes
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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America is a meritocracy.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
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I loved the idea of the fact that the way, like I said, they colored outside of the lines. You know, there was rules that they didn't have to follow. And you got -you got - you could get more of a sensational thrill, all right, with some of these exploitation movies or art films, or you could get something you wouldn't see at the normal cineplex.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
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I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.
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No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.
