Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Quotes to Explore
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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Therefore we should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors do. They don't try to change the winds or the sea but ensure that they are always ready to adapt themselves to conditions. In a flat calm they use the oars; with a following breeze they hoist full sail; in a head wind they shorten sail or heave to. Adapt yourself to circumstances in the same way.
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There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
