Alex Stamos Quotes
We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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Every time I listen to Eminem, I fall in love with music all over again.
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Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.
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As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write.
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I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl.
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We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.
