Alison Owen Quotes
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I aspire only to silence.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.
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If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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Everyone has some kind of light inside them.
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So high, so low, so many things to know.
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If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.
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Inflation is a prequel to the conventional Big Bang theory. ...It does provide a theory of the propulsion that drove the universe into this humungous episode of expansion which we call the Big Bang.
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Three years after the CCTV headquarters fire in Beijing in February 2009, human skeletons lie forgotten. Is anyone accountable?
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Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.
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Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.
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I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?
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It is really awful to be filming and not know if you can pay everybody.
