Alexander Payne Quotes
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I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
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Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.
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Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?
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We have been proud to call Seattle Center home court for four decades. Were the city to proceed with a project and be willing to enter into a lease that meet our requirements, we would join with the city in extending that legacy to our mutual benefit.
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I exercise a lot. I enjoy exercising. I switch back and forth with cardio and strength training every other day, and I try to do something active every single day. Other than that, I try to make sure I have enough quiet time to myself to recharge every week as well.
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For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.
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I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
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The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.
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I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
