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 wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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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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I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.
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The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
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If you're an old cat around young girls, you got to have somethin' to bring to the table.
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I don't sign every check anymore, but I have my checks, my balances. I like the people I work with very much, but I check on them.
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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.
