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John Lukacs Quotes

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: January 31, 1924

Topics

Stand Matter Corner Forever Like

I absolutely adore singing, and I hope I'll always be able to sing, but you can grow more and challenge yourself more as an actor.

Hope Challenge Yourself Singing Grow

When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.

Change People Thoughts Writing Think

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

Influence Book Anxiety Dreamer Long

Most people assume that when you go to court and win your case that you are guaranteed to get your money. Sadly, this isn't always the case.

Money People Win You Go Always

It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.

Communication Humility Impossible You

Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.

Teacher Golf Tiger Horrible

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Love God I Am Me Love Me Mean

My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

Louie Schwartzberg

Wings Sound Butterflies Million Very

What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'

Life Art Laugh Literature You Party

If somebody says, 'Do you remember the first time you heard a Rolling Stones song?' if you say you do, you're crazy. You've just always heard them. You might remember the first time it impacted you, but the first time you heard one, you were in a cradle.

Time Crazy Song Remember You Say

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.

Live America Environment Problem You

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