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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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
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A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.
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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.
