Ariel Durant Quotes
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
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Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
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I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.
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I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
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She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.
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I begin again, Dr.Y,this neverland journal,full of my own sense of filth.Why else keep a journal, if notto examine your own filth?
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Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
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I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.
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The world of wine is more creative than the world of cooking.
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If I ever move back to Canada, it'll be because I'm terminally ill.
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Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.
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I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.
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After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.
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There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
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Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'
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I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
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I don't want to become a superstar and not see my family anymore.
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
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The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.
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Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.
