Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
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Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
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Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
