Alison McGhee Quotes
I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
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My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
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Never trust a skinny cook.
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I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.
