Allegra Huston Quotes
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.
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I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.
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To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.
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I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.
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I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
