Alex Pareene Quotes
Rush Holt would be a fine senator. He's an actual physicist, which is neat. He cares very strongly about global warming, which is probably the single most pressing issue of our era.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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I don't like possessions.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google alone, but Google's narrative worked to drive the entire story.
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I'm guided by my enthusiasm.
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Rush Holt would be a fine senator. He's an actual physicist, which is neat. He cares very strongly about global warming, which is probably the single most pressing issue of our era.
