Jacques Barzun Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.
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Dealing with a government Tsarist Russia with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.
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Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
