Jacques Barzun Quotes
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
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I think that for the five-year-old watching MTV right now, Lady Gaga is going to be an iconic person. In 20 years, the people who are here and talking to journalists will be like, 'Oh Lady Gaga changed my life, Nicki Minaj changed my life.' They'll be saying who influenced them and it will be Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, artists like that.
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By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
