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When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

~Alan Hansen

Topics: Back Better Days Fantasy George Graham Think I Think

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Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.

~Alan Hansen

Topics: Back Decided Decision Definitely Football Go Last Last Season Mentally Never Playing Regretted Retired Season Toll Took Would Years

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Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Adrenaline Back Big Bombs Bullets Comparatively Conflict Day Event Fabric Fall Fly High Home Involve May New Often Other Photographers Runs Secure Selecting Sofa Themselves Two Where Which Worlds

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Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Although Back Basis Been Bone Century Chemistry Dates Development Eighteenth Fibers Form Man Materials Molecular Organic Prehistoric Science Since Skin Time Twentieth Twentieth Century Used Wood

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Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

~Alan Jay Lerner

Topics: Any Back Better Everyone French Here Home Might Said Same Same Thing Saying Sounds Talent Thing

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All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.

~Alan Kay

Topics: Agriculture Back Businesses Companies Could Cultures Deep Find Gathering Hunting Invent Like Problem Prosper Put Something Together Way Worked World Would Years Years Ago

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I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

~Alan King

Topics: Again Back Ball Been Fun Going Had Hate Just Laughing Listen Love Me More Movies Much People Role Sit Sympathetic Theater Them Two Two Weeks Villains Weeks Years I Love

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When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

~Alan King

Topics: Away Back Books Comic Comic Books Kid Send Those Used Ventriloquist

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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 knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

~Alan Lomax

Topics: American Back Bobby Book Collected Come Days Dylan Folk Folk Music Go He Knew Lived Me Music Next Ought Saying See Sing Songs Used Village

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