Allen West Quotes
This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.
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The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
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I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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Death is just life's next big adventure.
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When you fell in the sea, you should have heard them cheer. I made them rope the yard and fish you up. I said a ducking in water washes the witch-skill out of a woman until next full moon, and it would be bad luck to let you drown. How about that for a clever story? They’d believe anything if you make it sound silly enough.
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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She could only realize that she herself - her present self - was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes.
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Now people are coming up to meet me at my shows and they're doing my bits! One guy earlier was at 7-11 and he comes up to me and goes "you want a falcon?".
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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I look at the plotline and let my co-author basically write the book; first draft. Then they give it to me, and I totally destroy it and write all my stuff over it.
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Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.
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This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
