Alex Shoumatoff Quotes
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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Actors, after all, dream.
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When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.
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Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.
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I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.
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Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
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I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.
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Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform
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I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.
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Pollution, defilement, squalor are words that never would have been created had man lived conformably to Nature. Birds, insects, bears die as cleanly and are disposed of as beautifully as flies. The woods are full of dead and dying trees, yet needed for their beauty to complete the beauty of the living.... How beautiful is all Death!
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In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
