Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
Quotes to Explore
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
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In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and quite ordinary students and teachers.
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The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.
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There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page.
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The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.
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I'd tell you whose brand was tainted is Donald Trump. I mean, this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people.
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I've always felt very English.
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A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
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What I do is I take action because I value the position I have, the career I have, the life I live, the people I interact with, my fanbase, my friends, however you want to say that. I value those relationships and I use the opportunities they present to me.
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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
