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 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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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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I really like children to watch my movies.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.
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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.
