Harold Bloom Quotes
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.Harold Bloom
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker -
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
Harlan Ellison -
Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
Maelle Gavet -
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Victor Hugo -
I was authorized to do everything that I did.
Oliver North -
I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
Patrick Rafter -
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
Aaron Johnson -
No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer -
Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
Wayne Dyer -
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
Walter Kirn
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
Zach Woodlee -
I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
Nadine Velazquez -
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
I will never sell Flipkart.
Sachin Bansal -
I'm a little bit of a control freak.
Harlan Coben -
The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
Dan Pink
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I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.
Debra Winger -
When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
Dan Fouts -
Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.
Andrew Weil -
Thinking about one memory tends to activate other memories. ...If you are trying to retrieve a particular memory, the flood of memories can cause competition... leaving you with a traffic jam of neural nodes... leaving you with nothing.
Daniel Levitin -
Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.
Jacob Weisberg -
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom