Mortimer Adler Quotes
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
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No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
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I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second I have been on the band stand with him has been an absolute pleasure.
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It was a carefree period and we took to it like genuine lowlife.
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I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I'mma fade out.
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It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.
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If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. (2.12).
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
