Allen West Quotes
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.
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I was never any good at keeping secrets.
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The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.
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It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.
