Lyman Abbott Quotes
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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You'll be free or die!
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.
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Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
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One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.
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Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.
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They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb
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They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.
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Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I'm thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It's just a little bag but we'd feel naked in public without it.
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The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of her childhood that convinced her from a young age that there was something inherently wrong with being black.
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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
