Alice Walton Quotes
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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I knew that modeling could open doors, and I would be able to travel and forge my own path. Being able to support yourself is amazing, and I think that was one of the things that appealed to me, but I didn't want to be in front of the camera at first.
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Working on being creative in the TV world is endless. It never stops. It's a challenge that never disappears.
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You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
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I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.
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If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
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To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.
