Abraham Flexner Quotes
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.
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You don't fall in love with someone because they're perfect and meet your requirements - you fall for the things that are different about them or even problematic.
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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.
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When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.
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The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
