Damian Barr Quotes
I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
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I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.
