James Bryant Conant Quotes
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Imagination rules the world.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.
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I love the Olympics.
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The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
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When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.
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Focus on progress not perfection.
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
