- Nov 07, 2020
Ale Quotes
A small, varied set of reflections.
This is a modest, loosely connected collection, grounded mainly in a historical comparison of the scale of wartime scientific effort between two countries. Other entries touch briefly on film ratings and the kinds of scripts actors look for. Related quotes appear in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
CoverGirl putting my face on such an international scale did make a huge leap forward for men in makeup and for boys in beauty and for anybody wanting to express themselves.
- Catastrophic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although we must be prepared for a catastrophic large-scale strike, a cyber armageddon, the reality is that we have been living with a constant barrage of cyberattacks for some time. The trend, I believe, will continue.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having watched 'X Factor' over the years, they just haven't got it right. The male winners haven't been believable. They look like puppets; they sound like puppets.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was asked, 'Why do you think the male 'X Factor' winners haven't been successful in the past?' And I said, 'Because obviously the body of work that they've brought out wasn't good enough,' and that was it.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rationale for eliminating the alternative minimum tax is that such a backup system should not be necessary if the tax code is fundamentally fair and eliminates all the loopholes that made it possible for high-income taxpayers to escape taxation in the first place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a melody. All of that influences me. I also try to be a fictional writer, and sometimes I get close, but the things that resonate the most with me - and with everyone else - is what's real.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first saw 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' when I was very young. Its transporting qualities were so strong that I felt like I had lived it. Only recently, with adult eyes, was I able to metabolize how tragic a tale it really is.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do love doing action, but if I can balance the scale by doing other kinds of films that satisfy my creative ambitions, that feels really important.
- Fictive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020