Alex Spanos Quotes
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
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In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
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To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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Just because the rest of the people in Hollywood don't do their stunts doesn't mean I don't.
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.
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Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.
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I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.
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One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.
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I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.
