Jacques Barzun Quotes
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.
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There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.
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Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
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You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.
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I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!
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These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.
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When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.
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The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.
