Max Beerbohm Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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If you are an outsider looking at India, learn to filter out both the irrational exuberance and the excessive pessimism. We're subject to both. You will become manic-depressive if you follow our moods.
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.
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With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.
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Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.
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There's a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There's a lot of work that we at the Rockefeller Foundation are doing and funding towards that end, and increasingly, the U.S. government is getting engaged.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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Clarke's Fourth Law: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
