Jacques Barzun Quotes
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.Jacques Barzun
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
Dan Aykroyd -
Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
Vicente Fox -
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
Salman Rushdie -
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
Patrick Murray -
The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
Edmund Morgan -
To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
Ranbir Kapoor
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos -
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
P. J. O'Rourke -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
FKA twigs -
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan -
After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
Octavian Paler
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
Pardis Sabeti -
When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.
Dale Earnhardt -
I love the hip-hop nation.
Pam Grier -
I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
Gavin MacLeod -
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
G. Edward Griffin -
In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
T. R. Knight
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. Kelly -
Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.
Brian Wilson -
I don't want to make just tropical house. I want to make everything, just like, whatever I feel like making.
Kygo -
Uber is a better company with better math, better predictive supply, better brand, lower pickup times, higher quality of service. They'll absolutely win.
Chris Sacca -
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
Jacques Barzun