Allan Jacobs Quotes
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.
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I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.
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I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
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I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.
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Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.
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Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?
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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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Whether we love humanity or not, we must realize that we are part of it. My future depends entirely on the future of humanity, and so I am compelled to take care of humanity. That is why being compassionate is actually in my own best interest. And a symptom of my own peace of mind is that I can share comfort with others around me.
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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.
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I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.
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He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'
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Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.
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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
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Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.
