Jerry Saltz Quotes

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Jerry Saltz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1951

Topics

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Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

Jerry Pournelle

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It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

Andy Partridge

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With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

Jeff Ament

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I will not allow either my good name or the good name of the company I founded and love to be unfairly tainted.

John Schnatter

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Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.

John Skipper

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The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

Steve Jobs

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I self-deprecate. When I first got here two years ago, I didn't realise that in America you can't go into the room and put yourself down.

Sophie Winkleman

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I love to sing. Seriously, in my past life I was Miley Cyrus or something. I swear I'm a singer, but I know I'm not. If I could sing, I would be the happiest person on Earth.

Sloane Stephens

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Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

Ruth Reichl

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It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

Mickey Rivers

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My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.

Bob Diamond

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I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

Britney Spears

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