Allison Jones Quotes
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.
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It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
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I reached the age of 32 and I took a good look at myself and said, "What's going on here? This is nothing. This is not life". I went back to church and began to and find myself. I got some inner strength from that.
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May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.
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I don't really troll the Internet; I'm not young enough.
