Alex Pareene Quotes
Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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I have not taken inspiration from the fashion shows. I don't even really go to too many of the fashion shows - and have not for 15 years - because I don't want to be inspired by the same things as everyone else. If everyone is inspired by the same things, then of course, you all do the same pictures.
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Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.
