Alan Quotes

People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative. More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

Invaluable....the best one-stop source I've seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot

In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that's 12 goals conceded

I wouldn't touch Chimbonda with a barn door

Some of the Scotland players need to look themselves in the face.

Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United.

The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.

Spurs fans are feeling very boyish about the future

There's a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

The boys feet have been up in the clouds since the win

If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.

Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.

Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.

The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.

In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.

You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.