Max Beerbohm Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.
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The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
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The world of the flapper - live free, wild and young - that energy is intoxicating. It's nice to inject that into the more controlled 'Downton' way of living.
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The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives
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I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
