M. H. Abrams Quotes

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

M. H. Abrams

Recitation: by Male by Female

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  • Author Profession: critic
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  • Birth: July 23, 1912 - April 21, 2015

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This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.

Robert Pattinson

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We're building a lifelong relationship with people, and every great relationship has to be built on trust.

Angela Ahrendts

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The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

Amar Bose

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When I first started YouTube, I was using an old computer that I had had in high school that stayed with me through college that was on its last leg. The boot-up was, like, 25 minutes.

Rosanna Pansino

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I hate the concept of beauty for the sake of it. It is overrated.

Luca Guadagnino

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I had some great matches with 'Macho Man,' but the one at Halloween Havoc in 1997 was intense, and Havoc was the perfect venue for a Last Man Standing Match.

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As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

Drew Carey

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'Trading Places' did more for my career than anything I'd ever done. It was a zonking great hit, and it was also just a joy to do.

Denholm Elliott

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I've become accustomed to not being cast for television and film because of how I look.

Donna Lynne Champlin

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I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?

Susan Glaspell

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Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

Peter Gallagher

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Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

Pete Rose

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