Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Quotes
This museum is a torpedo moving through time, its head the ever-advancing present, its tail the ever-receding past of 50 to 100 years ago.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
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I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.
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I'd like to thank my parents for providing me with a high IQ & I'd like to thank my grams for encouraging me not to be a self absorbed idiot
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(You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)
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I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.
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I am not a sex symbol.
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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I never turned down a mother role.
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If there's one kind of music that makes somebody happy, how is that a bad thing? And if there's another kind that makes somebody else happy, how is that a bad thing? I don't get why anybody cares about what they don't like so much.
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In the free-to-play industry, the most money-making games are often coming from making people fighting against each other and really hating each other and wanting to revenge, so they spend more money to dominate.
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Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
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The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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I can never marry an obese guy.
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This museum is a torpedo moving through time, its head the ever-advancing present, its tail the ever-receding past of 50 to 100 years ago.
