Thomas Hoving Quotes

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

Thomas Hoving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 15, 1931 - December 10, 2009

Topics

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They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.

Jeremy London

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

John Foster Dulles

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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

Andrew Young

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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

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In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the book.

Roger Zelazny

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I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.

Mike Wilson

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I think Carmen Christopher is going to be massively huge. He's just too funny. He's got funny in his bones, and he wants to conquer every room.

Chris Gethard

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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.

Clarence Darrow

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One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

Philip Emeagwali

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I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.

Phil Anselmo

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I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything.

Shannon Elizabeth

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As we contemplate a world which is still choosing to deploy technological innovation in a way that deepens inequality and divisions within and between nations, we need to set global foundations back on track.

Sharan Burrow

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