Alexander Chee Quotes
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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I was an English major in college!
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I can’t die, he most famously liked to say. It would ruin my image.
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Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!
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Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.
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My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally.
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The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
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Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
