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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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
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The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible.
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You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
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I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
