Walter Abish Quotes
“America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.”
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.
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Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or coerced into surrogacy, as well as to protect the rights of surrogate children. However, it should also be empathetic to individuals with alternative lifestyles who are well within their legal and human rights to demand access to surrogacy services.
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We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
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Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.
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re: Abraham Lincoln. 'For whatever reason, and I can't explain why - that moment at which one is drawn into the orbit, irrevocably, of a life. I felt the tug of that orbit. I didn't know why; I was quite alarmed by it...'
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I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.
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Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
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And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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America isn’t afraid to compete.
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“America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.”
