Alexander Acosta Quotes
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
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In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
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Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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What it talks about is stuff that I've gone through, like, in the past year, which is, you know, a lot, and some of it's good, and some of it's bad, and a lot of it's, like, a big learning experience. And I got to write a lot about that with people that I've worked with before, so I felt completely comfortable.
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Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.
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Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.
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I can loop my tongue into multiple rolls.
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If inflation is brought down, interest rates will fall. Once rates fall, we have the opportunity to maybe achieve the goal of 'housing for all' faster; take roads, infrastructure to India's interiors.
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If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
