Alexei Sayle Quotes
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
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A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse.
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I'm tough, but I have a heart.
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On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.
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I was eighth in the world in doubles, 67th in singles. Could I have achieved more? Yes, perhaps, but I did it my way.
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I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
