Alex Pareene Quotes
Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.
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When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
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We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations.
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Part of your mission in life then must be to share your gifts with as many people as possible. That means being willing to play big.
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I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.
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Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.
