Abe Cunningham (Abraham Benjamin Cunningham) Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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Repeating is harder than anything else.
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I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
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To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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I'd do anything to help veterans.
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People are going to say what they want to say.
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I want it to have a message. I want it to empower people to say what they think.
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Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well in the light of our extraordinary hope that enables us to embrace the ordinary lives God gives us here and now.
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You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.
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Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy. . . Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.
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We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.
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I would have to say that we arnt like anything i've heard.
