Al Bernstein Quotes
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
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Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
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Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
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I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
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One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.
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Easy doesn't do it.
