Alex Haley Quotes
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.'
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
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When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.
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He seemsTo have seen better days, as who has notWho has seen yesterday?
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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We don't break the law.
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People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.
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I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find what I'm looking for outside of myself. It doesn't exist out there. Maybe it's only in here, inside my head. But my head is glass and my eyes have stopped being cameras, the tape has run out and nobody's words can touch me.
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If I had been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this.
