Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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I think it's good to live an artful life.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.
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Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.
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One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
