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I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid.


Alex Ebert

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ALEX BERENSON The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms o...
ALEX STEFFEN Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues ...
ALEX NOBLE Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after...
ALEX MORRITT I had never thought about playing volleyball until my freshman year, ... But Small stopped me in the...
ALEX NOBLE It started clicking then,
ALEX NOBLE Intimidation? Oh, gosh, I cried every day, ... I almost walked out the first day. One girl said I sh...
ALEX NOBLE Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and g...
ALEX NOBLE If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I ...
ALEX NOBLE If I'd stayed up there I'd be out of a job now,
ALEX SANDERSON One step from the scrapheap, really.
ALEX SANDERSON I was thinking about not buying things, but then I needed to buy stuff.
ALEX SANCHEZ We told them we understand that they are concerned about excessive risk. We also said we don't want ...
ALEX SANCHEZ Last year everywhere we played people tried to mess with me. I just tried to take it like a game. I ...
ALEX SANCHEZ We wanted to do a jungle theme, but only the girls were into it.
ALEX SANCHEZ I rode him for a bit, then I tried to let him up to get a takedown, but he acted like he didn't want...
ALEX SANCHEZ He was tough. There wasn't very much I could work on. After the first takedown, I realized I needed ...
ALEX SANCHEZ He wanted to be here. He's dedicated to the team. I know he'll be at the rest of the meets. Wrestlin...
ALEX SANCHEZ We have many women CEOs around the state of Florida. We're seeing that around South Florida, Central...
ALEX SANCHEZ He's probably one of the biggest factors that made me what I am. I wish he was out here with me winn...
ALEX SANCHEZ My shots were on. I was hitting my double legs. Working every day over the summer is what put me her...
ALEX SANCHEZ The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire.
ALEX SALMOND Our first democratic Parliament in history -- we are going to take that opportunity to move Scotland...
ALEX SALMOND We've gone from a small parliamentary party now to being a large one.
ALEX SALMOND It had 1,000 years as an independent nation before the union,
ALEX SALMOND Nations are nations if they feel themselves to be a nation. And Scotland overwhelmingly feels itself...
ALEX SALMOND