Barton Seaver Quotes
Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's very political just to come out and take up that space and be like, 'This is my narrative. It's not an outsider narrative, and it's not a fetish narrative; it's just my story, and it's worth being told and listened to.'
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
