Max Beerbohm Quotes
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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I love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
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I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.
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As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out
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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
