Max Beerbohm Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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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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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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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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I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
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Think about the deflections. The offense can't score every play. They're just trying to get a good shot. If I can deflect a pass, even if it doesn't cause a turnover, it will throw their timing off half-a-second. That half-a-second might mess up their shot.
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I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
