James Branch Cabell Quotes
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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We should celebrate the fact that, unlike some countries in the world, the United States makes promises that we will never send any student away from our schools.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I focus on different parts of the body on different days. It's usually high-intensity circuits and a lot of body weight stuff.
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I get very uncomfortable with people watching me.
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There is no gift more great than love.
