Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Quotes

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• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• I never thought of being disadvantaged.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Being

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

• I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Family
  • Baby
  • Busy

• I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Simple
  • Just
  • Chicken

• Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Career

• You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • You
  • Congress
  • How

• I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Sports

• I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Home
  • Listen
  • Liking

• Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • Air

• I wouldn't ever give myself the label bisexual, but bi-curious, yeah.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Myself
  • Give
  • Bisexual

• The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • She
  • Book
  • Funny

• Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Words
  • Meditation

• Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Up
  • True
  • Free

• I was driving my 1959 Chevy Impala down King's Highway in Brooklyn with the top down, and I heard 'Oh! Carol' on three stations at the same time while I was channel surfing. I knew then that I made it.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Time
  • King
  • Driving

• I always sort of saw myself as different from a musician.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Different

• It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Time

• I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

  

  Carol Windley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Time
  • Way
  • Right

• An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

  

  Gary Saul Morson
  • Museum
  • Quotations
  • Utterances

• The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

  

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
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