Beatrice Warde Quotes
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
Beatrice Warde
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
Dan Stevens
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
Harold H. Greene
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
Jack White
The White Stripes
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. Ron Hubbard
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
Kate Moss
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
Sam Altman
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
Pat Morita
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To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
Olga Kurylenko
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
Eddie Marsan
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
Lillian Hellman
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USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.
Ann Coulter
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Vivit post proelia Magnussed fortuna perit.
Lucan
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Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.
Antonio Porchia
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And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.
Kathleen Sebelius
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I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
Peter Straub
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If you want an innovative environment, hire innovative people, listen to them tell you what they want, and do it.
Arthur D. Levinson
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
Felix Bloch
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Edgard Varese
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Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.
John Lahr
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There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
Beatrice Warde
