Carl Van Vechten Quotes
The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.
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Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
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Iran is not a nation-state; it's a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.
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There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
