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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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.
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I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.
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We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
