Alex Shoumatoff Quotes
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
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Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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Hitler was never a socialist.
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Even if we accepted the health implications of pollution and the impact on global warming, from a simple space management perspective, mobility will eventually collapse in cities that give priority to the car.
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I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.
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I've just always rocked the goatee. Maybe a beard for a minute or some thick sideburns, but I've only been clean-shaven for, like, two days in my adult life.
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The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
