Alice Duer Miller Quotes
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.
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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
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Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.
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There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.
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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
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At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.
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Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .
