Clifton Fadiman Quotes
Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist
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It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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I am a Patsy Cline fan.
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Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.
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I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
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Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist
