Hal Abelson Quotes
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
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I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
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Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.
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I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.
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Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
