Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Quotes
Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to. It has a much more percussive rhythm to it.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.
