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 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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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.
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I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
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Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
