Daniel Abraham Quotes
We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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I've triumphed over addiction.
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Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.
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Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang 'Tilly-loo!'Till away they flew,-And they never came back to me!
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The silvery tree opens to an empty sky - maybe it is better that I am not your husband.
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We turn away astrophysicists in order to make room for illiterate Afghan peasants who will drop out of high school to man coffee carts until deciding to engage in jihad against us.
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Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.
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If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
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There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
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Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.
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In a pre-YouTube world, and in the beginning of the YouTube world, it was more personality-based and centered around very simple content.
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When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.
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We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.
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We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.
