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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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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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.
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I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
