Jacques Barzun Quotes
Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
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As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
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Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
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I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confident, you look beautiful.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.
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A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.
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Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
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I am going through with my barnstorming tour to the end. Bob Meusel and the other Yanks on my club agree with me that it will not hurt the game, as Landis fears. In fact, if anything, it will create more interest in next year's campaign for me to play out this tour. If Landis wants to put me out of organized baseball, let him do so. I will continue the tour.
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
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We wish we were doing it, of course, under much better circumstances, but this man was loved. For Chris.
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I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.
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I don't feel uncomfortable in forbidding institutions, and work with, say, prisons or psychiatric institutions could be one of the things that evolve out of the Laureateship.
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The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.
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The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.
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The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.
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Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.
