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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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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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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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
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Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
