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Arthur Baer Quotes

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1886 - May 17, 1969

Topics

Little Things Face You Little Big

I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.

People Writing Know Will Never Who

The criticism from the media never really bothered me. I'd correct it when I can, but that's their job. If stuff wasn't personal, then it really didn't bother me.

Job Me Criticism Media I Can Never

Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.

Morning Children I Am Me Lonely See

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Good Problem Solution You Find May

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

Michael Schudson

Culture People Advertising Find Bow

I was pretty scared of the idea as a younger person of being a musician on the road. It didn't occur to me as a possibility.

Me Road Person Scared Pretty Being

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

Chris Van Allsburg

I Am Perfect Way Never Shape Take

Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Family Great Time Appreciation Song

A touring comic's typical day roughly amounts to an hour of being laughed at and 20 minutes of being photographed. The other 22 hours and 40 minutes are spent in silence.

Day Silence Being Hours Minutes

The crux is this: you can't be sincerely empathic towards and angry at someone at the same moment. In other words, you can't walk in someone else's shoes and step on their toes at the same time.

Time Shoes Moment Walk Words Angry

Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.

Music Age Reflection Day People

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Work Art Moral Need Self-Interest

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