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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I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
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A measure of grander importance than any other one act of the kind from the foundation of our free government to the present day.
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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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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.
