Harold Rosenberg Quotes
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
