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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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.
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I photographed all kinds of sports - Formula 1, Formula Atlantic. And anybody who knows me knows that, from the day they invented video cameras, I used to lug them around when you had to carry the pack here and the big camera here, plus the diaper bag and a baby and the purse or whatever.
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In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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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.
