Alfred M. Gray Quotes
I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
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It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
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As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
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No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
