Alice Walton Quotes
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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I have always been an active part of my community.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
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I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.
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I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.
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When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.
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I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
