Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
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Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
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I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
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Even working from nature you have to compose.
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One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
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You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.
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God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.
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No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
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Lyme disease has become a fast epidemic worldwide. I am determined to help find a cure and figure out a way to share knowledge with the millions of people struggling with this debilitating disease.
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The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
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The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
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Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.
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Donald Trump announced his presidential bid in June 2015, he made some comments that resulted in a political firestorm. Among the least incendiary of those comments was this statement: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. . . . They’re sending people that have lots of problems.
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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
