Abraham Cahan Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.
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Being a pro wrestler can be kind of difficult sometimes. We have a perception about what we do - and I totally understand the perception, because we're a weekly episodic program, and we're having fun all the time, so people think that's kind of the most talented thing I could do.
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Variation and natural selection would also afford a key to a multitude of geological facts otherwise wholly unaccounted for, as, for example, why there is generally an intimate connection between the living animals and plants of each great division of the globe and the extinct fauna and flora of the post-tertiary or tertiary formations of the same region...
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Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.
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'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
