Harold Bloom Quotes
Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
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We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.
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Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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Dantzig explains why the language of number had to be increased to meet the needs created by the new technology of letters. (p. 200)
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Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.
