Max Beerbohm Quotes
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
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I don't think of people as black or white. It's a question of are they photogenic or not? I don't think anyone says, 'Let's book her. She's black.' I think they say, 'Let's book her. She's good.' We've come that far.
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I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
