Jacques Barzun Quotes
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
