Art Alexakis Quotes
Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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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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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.
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Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.
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He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.
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I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.
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Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
