Alvin Lee Quotes
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
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Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.
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So many poems you go into and come up empty.
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You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
