Casey Abrams Quotes
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra -
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz -
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
Pat Robertson -
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
A. A. Milne -
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
W. Averell Harriman -
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
Irvine Welsh -
As our economy advances, our government and our laws need to modernize, too.
Doug Ducey -
It is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.
Mallory Factor -
Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.
Andy Rooney -
If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
Oscar Wilde
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On a scale of 1 to 10, I was a 12.
Andrea Mitchell -
I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.
Drew Carey -
I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
Ethan Canin -
I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.
Michael McKean -
The fact that there isn't a performance right for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio means there's hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign income that doesn't come to the artists in America.
Neil Portnow -
If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.
Casey Abrams