Alfred Kazin Quotes
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
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My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
