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James Thurber Quotes

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Difference Between Our Decadence

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Nature Animals Need Right Natural

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.

Best Excellence Purpose Long True

When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks down their face into the elements that go into a caricature. It might be like the way a chef tastes a dish and can break down into elements what went into it.

Chef Brain Face Someone Look Down

In England, unless I am mistaken, I think some of the politicians who love classical music and opera are a bit loath to be seen there in case people think it is elitist. That is a real shame because it also means we are not allowing our politicians a hinterland that an earlier generation, a Denis Healey, would have taken for granted.

Love Music I Am People Think Shame

I am very grateful to Jeb Bush for his support of my candidacy.

Grateful I Am Support His Very Am

I just love where I am right now in my career.

Martina McBride

Love I Am Career Now Right Where

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

Joseph Kosinski

You Movies Never Kid Same Watch

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Think Way Heroes Paint Modern Well

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

Family Music Time Culture Musicians

We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.

Day People Story News Want Depth

The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Good Power Best People Doing True

What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

Pinetop Perkins

School Three My Own Years Own Much

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