Alex Haley Quotes
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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There's nobody in the world I wouldn't fight.
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I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.
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People should not be paid to go to Washington and not do their job. When they don't show up, why should we pay them?
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Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
