Alex Meraz Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
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In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.
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Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.
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I love bad boys. They're the most fun to play.
