Arnold Beichman Quotes
With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.
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We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change our world and to make our world a better place.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl, My heart says follow through.
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We're not eliminated till we're eliminated. I just feel good about not being eliminated. We get to live another day.
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Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.
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With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
