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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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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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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One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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When an organization is willing to support only lawmakers who are with it 100 percent of the time, it virtually guarantees that the debate will be bitterly partisan.
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The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.
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While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.
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Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting.
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Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist
