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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Can you imagine your second album - the difficult second album - it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, 'It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
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I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
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If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?
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My mom is my best friend and always offers me great perspective and reminds me to be compassionate to myself in moments when I feel low.
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I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it's 'Transformers 2' or 'Shrek 5', or it's yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It's a bit depressing in a way.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
