Barry Hughart Quotes
The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.
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I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
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You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!
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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.
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I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.
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If they come prying they can leave curious.
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We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations.
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Beauty is momentary in the mind - The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of winter, done repenting. So maidens die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral.
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There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.
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The Medici created and destroyed me.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.
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If we are to maintain a relevant and just industry, we must all open our eyes to the obvious lack of equality in wages, representation, and access.
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The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.
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The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.
