Barry S. Strauss Quotes

Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

Barry S. Strauss

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• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

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• I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

  

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• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

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• If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

  

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• I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

  

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• Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

  

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• I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

  

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• The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

  

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• To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

  

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• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

  

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• Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Genius
  • Press
  • Athletics