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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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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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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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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When I see you I run out of words to say I wouldn't leave you, Cause you're that type of girl to make me stay.
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I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be.
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I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
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For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.
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Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.
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And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
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This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
