Jacques Barzun Quotes
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
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Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
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Clarke's Second Law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
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Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.
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I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but let's say Woody Allen. But the more I've written, the more I've found that there is a deep well in me somewhere that wants to express things that I'm not going to find unless I write them myself.
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
