Walter Isaacson Quotes
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
Walter Isaacson
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
Karen DeCrow
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Madeleine Albright
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
Calvin Peete
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
Maeve Binchy
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
Ingrid Betancourt
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If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.
Jack Roy
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I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.
Ransom Riggs
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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God can only serve to confirm the ignorant in their superstitions.
John Calvin
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
Walter Isaacson
