I was with the president initially. His exit strategy is weak.


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ALAN GREENSPAN
I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY
If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS
I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS
Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS
No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES
Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY
It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY
There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY
There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY
I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING
Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING
It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
ALAN CUMMING
Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what...
ALAN CUMMING