Jake Barton Quotes
A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.
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You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
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I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.
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The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'
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A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.
