Alex Ebert Quotes
For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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When I do a T.V. show, I hear all these artists in their dressing rooms doing scales - I've never done it because I've never had voice training. What I do to prepare is get in my car and sing along to the radio for about 20 minutes.
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I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.
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I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.
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For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'
