Abba Eban Quotes
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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Let's hope you feel better now.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.
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'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.
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To me, the Quran is a research book.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
