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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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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Sitcoms are fun. The whole multi-cam genre is always a lot of fun. You throw a live audience in the mix, and it's even better.
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I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.
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I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
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Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.
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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.
