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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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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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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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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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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Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
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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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I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
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I'm a talker.
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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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My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the way you appear.
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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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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
