James Huneker Quotes

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

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• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Three
  • Ready
  • Settle

• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Film
  • Act

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Programming

• I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • World
  • Forget
  • Start

• I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • First
  • Texas
  • Touring

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• Nothing in my songs is disrespective.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Songs
  • Nothing

• Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • Eating
  • Bear

• I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Day
  • Always
  • Perform

• When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Good
  • Why
  • Air

• London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New York, Paris, Berlin... the ten fastest growing cities in the world are in China. How do we compete with them? We have to attract investment and we have to compete on skills.

  

  Sadiq Khan
  • People
  • World
  • Growing

• I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

  

  Harry Seidler
  • Blues Point Tower

• People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Travel
  • Sea

• So, go talk to flowers about bulls and such," Aphrodite said. "I'll go talk to flowers," Stevie Rae said.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Flower
  • Bulls
  • Aphrodite

• It was the '50s, and the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System were in fashion. I hung out in the 812 section - American theater and plays. This is where I first read Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' and was transfixed. I remember staring into space for what seemed an eternity after reading Linda Loman's final speech.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Remember
  • American
  • Death

• He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

  

  James Huneker
  • Wisdom
  • Fool