Alissa Quart Quotes

Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools.

Alissa Quart

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LiveDoorBetterDreamNothingMay

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

John C. Reilly

HeartBluesPlayBandMiseryDid

Definitely I feel my kids played a big role in why I was so successful in fighting.

Anderson Silva

FightingFeelWhySuccessfulBig

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

Matt Taibbi

FuturePeopleLanguagePoliticalOwn

I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

Jeffree Star

MoneyFamousSuccessfulJustWould

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

LearningLearnYouKnowCounts

I'll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn't half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, 'The Monk Jumps over the Fence.' It's a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man - it was poetry. It had a whole story.

Steven Adams

BeautifulManPoetryStoryFishPig

Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it! I think the Latin culture is sexy. It's one of my goals to learn to speak Spanish one day; then I will really be able to fool people!

Torrey DeVitto

LoveGoalsCultureDayFoolPeople

The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem.

Mike Marsh

PastPlantsProblemUnderstandFifty

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

Lucinda Williams

LoveGreatSweetWorldSongOld

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

Jonathan Levine

ThinkRealityExpectationDirector

I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma.

Jorge M. Perez

WorkGoodPeopleKarmaLuckyHard

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

Dino De Laurentiis

LimitCutSetOurselvesCharacters

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