Bernard DeVoto Quotes
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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I will run against anybody.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.
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My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
