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James Thurber Quotes

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961

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Man Remember Artist Boy Little Half

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Death Man World Short Christian Sin

I'd always told people that I would have liked to pursue some sort of professional fight career. I don't know if I'm quite right for it, since I'm extremely prone to injury. I've been boxing for a couple years, and I've messed around with some Jiu-Jitsu, and I've always felt that there's such a passion in a real fighter's heart.

Passion Heart Fight People Career

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

Will Way Him Destroy Himself Obama

I wanted to be Joni Mitchell.

Wanted Joni Mitchell Mitchell

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Medical Step Think Closing Out Own

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

Music Imagination People Song You

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism.

Style Art World Early Group First

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

Father Time Beginning War Me First

Certain people are just saying, 'Look, I'm a businessperson and I have to run a business effectively and I want people who are going to do the job, who have the training and the education and the personality traits - the soft skills.'

William Julius Wilson

Education Business Personality Job

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

William Randolph Hearst

Money Size Gifts Appropriate Fits

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.

Work Family Me I Can Know Christmas

I'm ready to run; it's my job.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

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