Abe Cunningham (Abraham Benjamin Cunningham) Quotes
Man, we couldn't even approach them. There were so many rules on that tour. It was fun, but, the stupidest rule? If they came walking down the hall, you couldn't make eye contact with them. If they came over to you, then you could talk to them, but they had to approach first. I mean, c'mon man, this is ridiculous.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Women just love to shop.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
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I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids.
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Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
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The third-date rule that you need to have sex by the third date treats sex like it's the down payment on a relationship.
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From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
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Man, we couldn't even approach them. There were so many rules on that tour. It was fun, but, the stupidest rule? If they came walking down the hall, you couldn't make eye contact with them. If they came over to you, then you could talk to them, but they had to approach first. I mean, c'mon man, this is ridiculous.
