Alex Tabarrok Quotes
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.
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A woman's outfit says a lot about her.
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Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
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You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.
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People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
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Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.
