Alfred Kazin Quotes
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
Alfred Kazin
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
Ed Markey
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
Patrick Leahy
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
Zadie Smith
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
Maajid Nawaz
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Eamon de Valera
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
Abby Wambach
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Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.
Donald Driver
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For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.
Plato
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I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
T. B. Joshua
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We'd visit an art museum in Houston, or a spectacular shoreline vista in Oregon, or attend a political lecture in Boston. And so I found myself getting a special kind of education just witnessing Bill's grasp of what makes our society tick and how business gets done.
Phil Jackson
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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
Alfred Kazin
