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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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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When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get the camerawork to really look like a cameraman was following from another plane. It gives it that 'Top Gun' look.
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Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.
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I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.
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My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.
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My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.
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In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
