Neal Bascomb Quotes
The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won’t you?
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
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The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.
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I said, 'When you are on your deathbed, Erran, pray that you never meet me in the place you are going to.'
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.
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My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.
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Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.
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Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation. Hence the need for a socialistic society.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won’t you?
