Jacques Barzun Quotes
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.
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If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
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There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
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I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.
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I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
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The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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What do you mean by communal? If I speak against the terrorism, is it communal?
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He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
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Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
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It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.
