Barry Hughart Quotes
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.
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Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.
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Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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Whate'erI may have been, or am, doth rest betweenHeaven and myself; I shall not choose a mortalTo be my mediator.
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In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.
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The subject may appear an insignificant one, but we shall see that it possesses some interest; and the maxim 'de minimis lex non curat,' does not apply to science.
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I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.
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Eat some pizza, play some Xbox, watch some TV. Gross? Maybe. Me? Yes.
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My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
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People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.
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Being from Serbia makes us tough and eager to prove that we can come from this country that has been through so much and still be successful.
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Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.
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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
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They are charged with trespassing, which means being on your own land when somebody else wants it.
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Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.
