Andrew Jackson Downing Quotes

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

Andrew Jackson Downing

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• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

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• And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

  

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• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

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• Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

  

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• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
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• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
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• I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.

  

  Jack Dee
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• I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Music
  • Country
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• With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Heart
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  • Ocean

• It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Delusion
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• And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.

  

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• People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.

  

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• It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

  

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  • Hate

• The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Great
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• Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that, you know, and, um, be faithful in what happens.

  

  Britney Spears
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• That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

  

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• I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

  

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• Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

  

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• My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

  

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  • Art
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• The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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• Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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  • Traditions

• There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Education
  • Respect

• He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

  

  Andrew Jackson Downing
  • Respect
  • Lose
  • Riches