Alexander Haig Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I'm easily entertained.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
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When we came to the network, it was a very interesting time where Portlandia had just come on the air and had been very, very successful. I think people had Portlandia-sized expectations for Comedy Bang! Bang!, especially after the first episode was sampled by quite a large number of people. I remember getting the ratings after the first episode, and the network was over the moon about it. And then the second episode tanked so hard. Like, no one watched it. It was a resounding, "Hey, a bunch of people tried your show, and they all hate it!"
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I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.
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There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion.
