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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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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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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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.
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I think I have that ability to win the ball back quickly when we lose it.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
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There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.
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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.
