Jerry Saltz Quotes

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

Jerry Saltz

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• We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
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• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
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  • Live
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• It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

  

  Madchen Amick
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  • Wife
  • Explore

• I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.

  

  Zac Efron
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  • Money
  • Fashion

• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Monster

• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
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  • Done
  • Want

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.

  

  Lainie Kazan
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  • Exercise
  • Yoga

• I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

  

  Halsey
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  • Money
  • Human Rights

• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Free love sounds great.

  

  Laura Prepon
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  • Love
  • Free

• All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

  

  Naveen Jain
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  • Sustainability

• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  

  W. C. Fields
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  • Devil

• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • History
  • Present

• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  

  Umberto Eco
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  • World
  • Interesting

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Power
  • Wisdom

• For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Society
  • Black

• History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Different
  • History
  • Period

• Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • World
  • Important

• Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.

  

  Andrew Jackson Davis
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  • Make

• On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Great
  • Money