Max Beerbohm Quotes
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
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I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.'
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When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power, and, while keeping the forms, corrupt the function of those institutions for their own ends. Looking at things that way, the George W. Bush presidency has been both result and symptom of the decadence of America's constitutional mechanisms.
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I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.
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I always loved the way you are so quick to see everybody else as monsters.
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Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.
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To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
