Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.Van Wyck Brooks
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
Rand Paul -
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
Adam Mansbach -
In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
Namie Amuro -
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
Nancy Lopez -
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
Patricia Polacco -
When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
Iain Duncan Smith -
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Gautam Adani -
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
Edie Brickell -
All of my main characters have been under 30.
Tamra Davis
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
Forest Whitaker -
I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
Gary Johnson -
There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
Tamara Mellon -
I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
Gail Simmons -
I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
Zac Brown Band
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
Pat Brown -
The mark of an educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and has stood on top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are none the less legitimate.
E. J. Pratt -
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
James Gates Percival -
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
Van Wyck Brooks