Alvin Lee Quotes
My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.

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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.
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Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
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Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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(Bachelet) wasn't perfect ... her smile was reserved, she was firm on one or two basic points. Nothing more. It was just enough - right at the edge - so as not to break the spell.
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My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.