Abraham Flexner Quotes
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Often when I feel I am reaching a saturation point in my performances, I think of coming back to NSD and attending workshops.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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You have to play the logic of a character.
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Democracy is something you have to participate in.
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The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
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I cried when I was drafted by Buffalo... You can't be a great quarterback in snow and 30 mile-an-hour wind.
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You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success - the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs?
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.