Alex Morgan Quotes
Scoring a goal in a World Cup was my dream as a little girl. I didn't really dream of being in 'Maxim' when I was 5.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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I'm a real optimist.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.
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When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.
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Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.
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Scoring a goal in a World Cup was my dream as a little girl. I didn't really dream of being in 'Maxim' when I was 5.
