Clive Thompson Quotes
A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.
Clive Thompson
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
Sallust
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
E. F. Schumacher
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
C. K. Williams
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
Yolandi Visser
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
C. Thomas Howell
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
Abraham Verghese
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Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with.
Jimmy Chamberlin
The Smashing Pumpkins
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My style is a bit of what I like to call chic-casual. It is easy and comfortable.
Anushka Sharma
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
Natasha Tsakos
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A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.
Clive Thompson