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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
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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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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.
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I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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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.
