Northrop Frye Quotes
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
Quotes to Explore
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I bought a girl roses once.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me. I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
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Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything within it, arising from some primordial argument between the deity and nothing whatsoever. And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.
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This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
