Eddie Alvarez Quotes
The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
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In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.
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Having an education is invaluable.
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There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
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I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'
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Europe has sent a clear and firm message to the world that ambitious climate action is needed now.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
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I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.
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Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
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The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.
