Hal Abelson Quotes
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
Dakota Blue Richards -
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.
Wayne Kramer -
Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
It's the irrational things that interest me.
Harrison Birtwistle -
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman -
Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
Wendy Liebman
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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.
Dana Hill -
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.
Gary Bauer -
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.
Larry Fitzgerald -
I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
Rain Phoenix -
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis -
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.
Jack Nicklaus
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
Zooey Deschanel -
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.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Adam Driver -
Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!
Randy Pausch -
Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.
T. S. Eliot -
A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Nancy Pelosi
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Unfortunately, considering that we Latinos are really big for movie companies when they have blockbuster releases or new cable shows, when it comes to the dynamic of supporting our own product, it leaves much to be desired.
Jimmy Smits -
Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
Wislawa Szymborska -
Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as 'The Hobbit' to help you get international work.
Dean O'Gorman -
A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit....As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.
Keith Olbermann -
Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
Hal Abelson