Bernard Berenson Quotes
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while still respecting the European backgrounds of my relatives.
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Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.
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Suffering is admittedly one of the central problems of human existence; but this is because we have a suspicion that it is all for nothing. If we had a certainty about meaning, the suffering would be bearable. With no certainty of meaning, even comfort begins to feel futile.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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It's our government; just leave us alone and... let the free market create the jobs.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
