James Branch Cabell Quotes
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
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Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
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People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
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We are in an economic war. It is a war between those who create wealth and those who believe they have some sort of divine mandate to appropriate wealth. They don’t have such an authoritative command. I don’t think they ever did. We have tried their command-andcontrol methods for nearly a century because they said they knew better. It is now obvious that they didn’t.
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The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.
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Imagination creates reality.
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Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
