Alex Sharp Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I would like to direct.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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The next decade is just going to be explosive. We need to know where we are going to be five, 10, 15 years from now.
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
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Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: a biosystem with a limited capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the consequence is future shock.
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There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.
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I haven't felt anchored my entire life. But I kind of like it.
