John Abercrombie Quotes
I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Time was God's first creation.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
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The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
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I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.
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I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.
