Abraham Cahan Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.
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Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
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When you are in vibrational harmony, your body produces whatever it needs to remain in perfect balance.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
