Harold Bloom Quotes
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
