Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
Karen Abbott
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
Irvine Welsh
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In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'
Jack McBrayer
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
Salman Rushdie
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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In the long run, competitiveness derives from an ability to build, at lower cost and more speedily than competitors, the core competencies that spawn unanticipated products.
Gary Hamel
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Morley has a gift for doing the kind of story that you think only Morley could do, or that certainly Morley could do better than anyone else.
Ed Bradley
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Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
Ambrose Bierce
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In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, the welfare of mankind.… I wanted what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular powers should do and want by virtue of their offices.
Adam Weishaupt
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In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
Jason Biggs