Delmore Schwartz Quotes
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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Mainly I love working on good writing.
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
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I try to stay in decent shape.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
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I don't see anything wrong with staying young looking as long as you can.
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Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
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In dreams begin responsibilities.
