Cecil Jacobson (Cecil Byran Jacobson) Quotes
I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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A great-great grandpa (there might be another great in there, I'm not sure) offered a gun and horse to anyone that would join the Confederacy in '64. Who cares if it was 1964. Give the guy a break. He had Alzheimer's and thought he was Jefferson Davis. (p. 5).
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.
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Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
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The Kwajalein waters are incredibly lucid: vision typically up to three hundred feet.
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No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.
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When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.
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'The Fades' is its own world. If you try and link it to some religion, you have people going, 'Oh, that's not right,' with their Bible open. Let's just chuck some imagination at it.
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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
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If you are running for the presidency of the United States, you better have a strong opinion.
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I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
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The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.
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I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
