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.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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.
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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.
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I want to win championships.
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As our economy advances, our government and our laws need to modernize, too.
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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.
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Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.
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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
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On a scale of 1 to 10, I was a 12.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.
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Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they've got some pie chart or graph behind them and they're talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that we need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman's level and what everything that she is balancing in her life - that's the way to go.
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If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.
