James Addison Baker Quotes
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
James Addison Baker
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
Vicente Fox
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.
Nancy Kress
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I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
Katha Pollitt
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I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
Paloma Faith
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In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.
Felix Frankfurter
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'Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea,' said Japhy. 'Remember that book I told you about; the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.'
Jack Kerouac
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Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.
T. E. Hulme
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'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
Anne Rice
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If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
Charles Dickens
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The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure at all levels of government to realize that people, not structures, really determine a city’s success.
Edward Glaeser
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Essential to the self-image of conservatives is the notion that they are enemies of an established orthodoxy, insurgents against the dogmatic political correctness that predominates on the Left.
Jacob Weisberg
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I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green, merry fucking Christmas!
Denis Leary
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There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.
Vincent Price
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Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
James Addison Baker
