Abba Eban Quotes
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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Your life is the same wherever you go.
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I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.
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The pass-word now is lost To that initiation full and free; Daily we pay the cost Of our slow schooling for divine degree. We know no means to feed an undying lamp; Our lights go out in every wind or damp.
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We are going to combat corruption, and we are going to underscore the fact that we want the private investors to be a major part of our future economy.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
