Jacques Barzun Quotes
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
Jacques Barzun
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
Valerie Plame
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. Philip Randolph
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
Fay Weldon
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
Larry Ellison
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
Dane Cook
I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
Ilka Chase
What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
Halle Berry
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales
Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
Yash Chopra
One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
Taylor Mali
I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
Q-Tip
I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
Eddie Huang
I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
Kate Spade
The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
Walter Reisch
Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
Walter Murch
In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.
Chris Hardwick
