Robert Darnton Quotes

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.

Robert Darnton

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Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.

John Bradshaw

WorkSimplePeopleThinkingYou

Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand; your brand is what keeps you moving.

Meek Mill

PeopleMovingBrandNameYouKnow

I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think, 'All right, that one out of these seven is really good; it's a keeper.' But on this second album, to be honest, I probably wrote about 50 songs where I was just trying to write a hit.

Andy Grammer

LifeGoodPeopleThinkTryingPlay

If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes.

John Rhys-Davies

GoodFashionYouSayFollowYes

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

Stephen Greenblatt

TruthStartMeaningKnowPleasure

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

Tom Hooper

NameBadBecauseGetBleakLot

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

Ruggiero Ricci

GoodMusicPeopleBadI CanSound

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

Mary Gauthier

GoodSongEmotionalLightningBolt

The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

GreatRegretConsequencesSorrowHis

I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

Dawn French

LoveGuiltyPleasureWatchLike

I grew up in a small town in Kansas, so I love meeting the fans. Those are the people who spend time out of their day to watch the things that I've done, and I've gotten to do some great supernatural stuff - 'Teen Wolf' and 'The Gates' before that - so it's nice when I get to go to Comic-Con every year.

Colton Haynes

LoveGreatTimeDayTeenPeople

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

Annie Besant

ChildrenMyselfChildhoodChildMe

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