Neil Abercrombie Quotes
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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I'm a good driver.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.
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Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.
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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.
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If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.
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Just because someone is your family member doesn't mean they're a good person.
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You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.
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I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
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If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.
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The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
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So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
