Simon Van Booy Quotes

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view.

Simon Van Booy

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I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I'm now five feet four.

Jerry Lewis

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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

John Ortberg

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I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

John McCain

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One thing I've noticed about history - you can search on newspapers going back hundreds of years, search for 'economic forecast,' you don't find it. It would be very rare to find it.

Robert J. Shiller

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I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

Robert Glasper

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Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

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My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.

Solange Knowles

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There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

Ruth Wilson

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I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

Mitchell Baker

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I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

David Walliams

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I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.

Colm Toibin

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The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

Chuck Palahniuk

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