Cleveland Abbe Quotes
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.
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I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.
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But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!
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You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.
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The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.
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The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.
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It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
