Max Beerbohm Quotes
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
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Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
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The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
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I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
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I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.
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Black liner looks harsh on me because I'm so blond, so I do a brown liner with a black mascara. My favorite is 'L'Oreal Voluminous' on my top and bottom lashes. For a while, I only did mascara on the upper lashes, but it makes me look too pretty.
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I was studying chemistry, and this is a physically hard job because you are in the laboratory, you work hard, and you come home in the late afternoon or in the evening and you always needed a break.
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I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.
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To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.
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The person who learns to number his or her days gains a heart of wisdom (Ps. 90:12).
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
