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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I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.
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I need to open a restaurant, a big soul food restaurant in Beijing!
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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
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I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.
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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.
