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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

~Alan Hovhaness

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Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

~Alan Huffman

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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

~Alan Jackson

Topics: Age Any Around Because Biggest Exposure Family Haw Instruments Live Live Music Music Played Town Young Young Age

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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

~Alan Kay

Topics: Anything Around Born Technology Were You

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That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

~Alan King

Topics: About Always Around Because Birthday Celebrating Everybody Father Get Great Great Thing Joke Kid Me New Older Tell Thing Time Trees Used Year You

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I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

~Alan Ladd

Topics: Am Around Back Corner Death Life Me Myself Over People Shy Sit Slap Someone Talk

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I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

~Alan Lewis

Topics: Around Body Body Language Disposal Get How Language Marry Players Question Talk Them Thinking Three Tools Try Up Way Whistle

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Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Around Art Commemorate Ground Illuminate Interested Interesting Know Life Life Is A Light Little Lot More Music Patch People Places Them Things Up Want Whatever Writing You Your

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One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of bullying - it's very big, it's very flashy, it's got a lot of weight and it throws it around almost to the detriment of the rest of our culture.

~Alan Moore

Topics: About Almost Around Big Bullying Culture Detriment Film Flashy Got Incredible Kind Like Lot One Of The Things Our Quality Rest Things Throws Very Weight

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If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Around Bits Burst Century Characters Contemporary Culture Embedded Emerged Even Fantastic Fears Find Hopes Incredible Insights Late Look Many Often Penetrating Real Real World See Some The Real World Those Times Us World You 20Th Century

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