Al Alvarez Quotes
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.Al Alvarez
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
Barbara Bush -
In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
Daniel Bryan -
I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
Adam Jones -
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant -
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
Facundo Pieres -
I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
Gary Johnson -
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Damian Lewis -
We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Ovid -
As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
Kajol
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
Patricia McBride -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler -
Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
Patrick deWitt -
The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
Washed Out -
Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
Aaron Ciechanover -
Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
Patrick Leahy
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
Wadah Khanfar -
I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
Dalai Lama -
I think listeners are hungry to hear quality.
Patty Griffin -
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
Al Alvarez