Jacques Barzun Quotes
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Beau Bridges -
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot -
I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
Rafael Nadal -
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott -
Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
Tarja Halonen -
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
Laura Linney -
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
J. B. Smoove -
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
Samantha Power -
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Kate Brown
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
G. Willow Wilson -
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean -
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory -
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine -
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
Jack Ma
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You can expect interior enforcement actions in the future.
Asa Hutchinson -
I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.
Channing Tatum -
The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
William C. Kirby -
I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
Kate Smith -
My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.
Elise Broach -
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun