Alice Walton Quotes
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.
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À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
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Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
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The chief requirement of the good life... is to live without any image of oneself.
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I take my title from the name the Jews have traditionally given the Roman Empire. You may expect to meet all manner of wickedness in what follows - pork-eating, lechery, adultery, bigamy, sodomy, bestiality, the most ingenious varieties of cruelty, assassination, the worship of false gods and the sin of being uncircumcised.
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I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavor to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock, - that is, some particular, not universal, way of viewing things.
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If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
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But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!
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Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.
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In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.
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Most everything I’ve done I’ve copied from somebody else.
