Walt Alston Quotes
Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
