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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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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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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I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
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I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
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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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I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.
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Death's long anabasis.
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In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
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Most everything I’ve done I’ve copied from somebody else.
