Jacques Barzun Quotes
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Jacques Barzun
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
Randeep Hooda
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
Ira Glass
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
Bashar al-Assad
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman
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Every fight brings out something different in me, and it will be no different in this one. I have learned and gained from all of those experiences. And as I've often said, the public hasn't seen the best of me yet. I need someone like Mayweather to bring that out of me.
Canelo Alvarez
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My parents had five children in six years and one week, meaning that my mom was pregnant for most of the '60s and driving carpools for most of the '70s. When we were young, she dressed us alike so she could pick us out in crowds: identical skirts for the four girls with the color-coordinated pants for my brother.
Christine Pelosi
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I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.
Jason Isbell
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I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
Jeff Lindsay
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Ivanka Trump's declared mission to 'empower women who work' is a welcome element in the Trump administration. As a woman with a desk in the White House and the founder of an international corporation, she is certainly in a position to improve the wages, safety, and quality of life of working women around the world.
Jan Schakowsky
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Jacques Barzun