Alex Pareene Quotes
'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
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Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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To be a winner, you've got to be an appraiser. You've got to be able to play at your best under pressure. And more money creates more pressure. Money is the finest fuel in the world.
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Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
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My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.
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Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.
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'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
