George Jean Nathan Quotes

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

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• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Life
  • History
  • Society

• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Job
  • Man
  • Government

• A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Baby
  • Complete

• I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Long
  • Love

• Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • You
  • Artist
  • Explain

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Win

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Pretty
  • Guitar
  • Gut

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
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• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
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  • Human
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• Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

  

  Ma Jun
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• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• Sometimes when I do an overdub solo, they'll keep four or five of my attempts and then mix the bits that they like to make a solo up out of them. It's not against the rules, really - I can learn my own solos, then. But that's the whole beauty of multi-track recording, isn't it?

  

  Jeff Beck
  • Up

• The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Unknown
  • Dumb

• Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Walking

• I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • People
  • True
  • Religious

• The exciting part about life is finding out what you can't do, because you don't find out until you try to do something and you're stopped.

  

  Kyle Kinane
  • Life

• Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

  

  George Jean Nathan
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