Alice Ripley Quotes
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
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It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.
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You don't have to show people how successful you are.
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I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.
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I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.
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I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light.
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My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.
