Dannie Abse Quotes
I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
Quotes to Explore
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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To fall suddenly sick when you have never been ill is a hard lesson. If it teaches anything, it teaches you that you must not trust to the thing you know, that it is better to build on shifting sand than the rock which may confound you on the day it shatters.
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I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
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I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
