James Fenton Quotes
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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Venus favors the bold.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
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The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
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Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.
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Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. I am but God's humble instrument; but you may rest assured that as long as I live no one shall put a shackle on your limbs; and you shall have all the rights which God has given to every other free citizen of this republic.
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Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs.
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I try to do as much as I can for the military.
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Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.
