James Fenton Quotes
I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.James Fenton
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim -
The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
Jack Hanna -
I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
Harland Williams -
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
Ted Demme -
I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
Flume
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
Sam Trammell -
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
Fedor Emelianenko
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
Ian Hart -
If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
Ed Rendell -
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey -
My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
Cam -
In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
Pat Boone -
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
Salman Khurshid
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Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.
Chet Huntley -
Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.
Alicia Keys -
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.
Kim Jong Il -
I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.
Imelda May -
I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
Donald Knuth -
I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.
James Fenton