Alex Pareene Quotes
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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I don't like actors, I like women.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.
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I do love competence in a man.
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I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
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The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.
