Bernard DeVoto Quotes
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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Real luxury is customization.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
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I am not a gamer. Not since the days of Atari.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
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And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
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I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.
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I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.
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You've just got to do the best that you can.
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My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.
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Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.
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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
