Al Alvarez Quotes

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

Al Alvarez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 5, 1929

Topics

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The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at which you can move.

Jim Lee

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I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

Melissa McCarthy

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My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

Robert Wyatt

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People do not make wars; governments do.

Ronald Reagan

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I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.

Russell Hornsby

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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Moliere

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I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.

Louise Nurding

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Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'

Jon Landau

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I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process.

Jonathan Anderson

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I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else.

Johnny Weir

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'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.

Douglas Rushkoff

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