James Fenton Quotes
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
Zayn Malik One Direction
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
Laura Linney
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
Walter Gropius
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
Zoe Saldana
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
Patrick Kane
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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
M. Night Shyamalan
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
Barbara Jordan
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
Jack Horner
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
Frances Farmer
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
Laini Taylor
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.
Freddie Prinze
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For I hate, yet love thee, so,That, whichever thing I show,The plain truth will seem to beA constrained hyperbole,And the passion to proceedMore from a mistress than a weed.
Charles Lamb
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People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
George McGovern
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Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.
Rachel Caine
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I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem.
Hillary Clinton
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A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.
James Fenton