Max Beerbohm Quotes
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I do sincerely hope the Cubs win a World Series. After I die.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else.
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I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
