Jacques Barzun Quotes
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
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I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
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Edible Arrangements will have to beat back some rivals, including a handful of mom-and-pop vendors and a company in Pennsylvania called Incredibly Edible Delites. And there's always the chance that a deep-pocketed national florist like FTD will decide that pretty produce is profitable and jump into the mix.
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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
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I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.
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Going was easy. Keep on going was hard.
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Always the sightseers: open-mouthed, disbelieving. There was a force for desolation loose in their midst which could consume their lives at a glance, surely they could see that? But they’d watch anyway, willing to embrace the void if it came with sufficient razzmatazz.
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Utah is one of the nation's leaders in rebounding from the Great Recession.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
