James Wolcott Quotes
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
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We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Nobody represents America’s values better than the American people, and I believe this contact will ultimately do more to empower the Cuban people.
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When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
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Webern was a kind of 'Kamchatka of music,' an unknown country of music. That's true; for me and people of my generation, he was a radical - you couldn't be more radical than he was.
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The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
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I know guys. I know the way they think.
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Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.
