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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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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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
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The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.
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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
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If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
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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.
