Allen West Quotes
Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
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You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.
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Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
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You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
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Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.
