Alex Pareene Quotes
'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.
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Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.
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The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
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I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
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'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
