Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Life is a school of probability.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.
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I never get the feeling that I've decided rationally, cold-bloodedly to write a story. On the contrary, certain events or people, sometimes dreams or readings, impose themselves suddenly and demand attention.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
