M. H. Abrams Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.
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Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
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Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.
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I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
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The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
