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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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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If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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There's fears in everyone's job. Ours are in the limelight, and people think we're incredibly privileged or nuts to do what we do for a living.
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My mom is a gym teacher, and she's not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.
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I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.
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Women are God's last creation. You suppose he's saying, "What should I do to follow this?" Well, it's really a head -scratcher. I think women are absolutely wonderful. I think this world is going to be governed by women.
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This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
