Hank Stuever Quotes
In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant succeeding at what it set out to do?
Quotes to Explore
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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I think of 'Twilight' in terms of the fact that the popularity has given us the opportunity to do the things that we love, and now we can pick and choose.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
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While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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We know photography, but there's another aspect to it, which is getting it out there to people.
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Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.
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My stand-up act is very clean.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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January was not our best month ever, far from it, and that was disappointing.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.
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In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant succeeding at what it set out to do?
