Alice Walton Quotes
One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.
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It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
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There is a huge misconception that if you do something like hot yoga, you'll burn more calories, and the opposite is true. You want to heat your body from the inside out, not the outside in.
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I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.
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In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
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One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.
