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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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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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 have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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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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My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
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Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. (Hays translation)
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
