Max Beerbohm Quotes
I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
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My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.
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We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.
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Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.
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I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
