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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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
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I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.
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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
