James Branch Cabell Quotes
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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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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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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.
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His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
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What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.
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The United States' job is not to police the whole world.
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Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
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My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.
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There is no gift more great than love.
