Abe Lemons Quotes
If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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You're supposed to have a passionate purpose as a CEO.
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If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.
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Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.
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During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
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It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.
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If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'
