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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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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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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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.
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Don't let your upbringing, your surroundings, whatever situation you are living in, don't let those stop you from being the greatest you that you can be.
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I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.
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This has been a marathon election as you can tell with a record turnout and I think it has been good for politics and it has been good for London.
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
