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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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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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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I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.
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Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
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Death does not exist.
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'Braveheart' is way up there for me.
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People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.
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Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.
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If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world.
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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
