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Alec Baldwin Actor
Determined

“I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.”

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Alec Baldwin Actor
Funny

“A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet.”

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Alex Kendrick Filmmaker, Actor
Grateful

“As you show these principles over and over , it becomes engrained into how we think. And, when your kids see that, they begin doing it to their siblings. And so we've seen that as well. Many of these aspects I already knew as a parent but, as I study them more, there are more avenues that I can apply in my own parenting and I'm seeing how my kids are watching how I (interact) with my wife and (with) each of them and I watch how they (interact) with each other.”

Alex Winston Singer-Songwriter
Vulnerable

“I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore.”

Alexander McQueen Fashion Designer
Melancholic

“There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.”

Philosophical

“I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try.”

Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
Philosophical

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.”

Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
Philosophical

“A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.”

Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
Philosophical

“Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.”

Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
Philosophical

“We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.”

Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
Philosophical

“It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.”

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Ali MacGraw Actress
Inspired

“I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.”

Ali MacGraw Actress
Melancholic

“I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.”

Ali Larijani Politician
Angry

“I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.”