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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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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I can't remember life before I was an actor. In fact, I was an actor before I knew what it was to be an actor.
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Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
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What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
