Stephen Greenblatt (Stephen Jay Greenblatt) Quotes
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
Olivia Colman
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
Wendell Pierce
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Lance Loud
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
Abraham Verghese
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
Karan Mahajan
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
Jack Kilby
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
Sam Harris
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Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.
Dan Savage
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I certainly want to continue to be a role model. But I don't think it's necessarily about being a female in our business. I think it's about... my track record, my results.
Marillyn Hewson
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
Doreen Cronin
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Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.
George VI
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
A. S. Byatt
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
Robert Frost
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I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
Caroline Shaw
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No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
Stephen Greenblatt
