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.
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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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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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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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Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
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It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
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If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.
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To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.
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If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.
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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.
