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.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
Viktor Orban
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Nothing exists except through language.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
Nathan Myhrvold
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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.
Sam Kean
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
Waylon Jennings
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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.
Yuna
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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.
Walid Jumblatt
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
Utada Hikaru
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
Rachel Zoe
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
Vida Blue
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
Danica Patrick
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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.
Carla Hall
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
Yelawolf
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
Eddie Marsan
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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity-and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all share, and there are many more women creators writing stunning and exciting music, and I wish I had space to list them all!
Barbara Harbach
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
Bette Davis
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft
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Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist
Clifton Fadiman