Jim Barksdale Quotes
There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
Jim Barksdale
Quotes to Explore
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
Nathan Myhrvold
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
Vikram Seth
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You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
Eddie Campbell
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I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
Eavan Boland
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I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
LaToya Jackson
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I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.
Pablo Schreiber
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I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
John Stuart Mill
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The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.
Aristotle
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We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
John Spratt
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It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
Jim Barksdale