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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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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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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One of the biggest lessons that we hope to model for several folks, including some of the young women of color who come to me, is the value of understanding your worth, standing up, and demanding the best for yourself and not taking less.
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
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The key to a good horror movie is what happens between the scares. The scares aren't the tricky part. If you're involved in what's going on in between, the scare is going to trick you. If you're not, the best scare in the world will not be scary.
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He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.
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When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
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I have inner peace; I have accomplished a great deal.
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When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.
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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
