Northrop Frye Quotes
Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.
Northrop Frye
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
Jack Wagner
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
Kailash Satyarthi
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
Adam Driver
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
Dambisa Moyo
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In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
W. Daniel Hillis
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson
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God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
P. D. James
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Schools of journalism at exemplary American research universities, where the academic disciplines still coexist, are positioned to draw upon the full intellectual and educational resources of the university environment to help produce the skilled, responsible, expert, knowledgeable and highly proficient journalism leaders that our society-indeed the world-has need of, especially in these complex and challenging times, ... Our democracy depends on journalism to keep its institutions challenged and responsive to the public's needs, and the quality of the profession demands the best a university can offer.
Vartan Gregorian
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The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.
Flann O'Brien
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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
Laini Taylor
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In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.
Barack Obama
