Greil Marcus Quotes

I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut.

Greil Marcus

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About 25 years ago, my wife and I bought Kenny Loggins' house in Santa Barbara. It was way out of our price range, but we said, 'Screw it, let's go for it.' We've raised our family there. We overextended ourselves at the perfect time in our lives, and it worked out for the best.

Jeff Bridges

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I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

Tom Selleck

InnovationThinkTelevisionAlways

There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.

Molly Ivins

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My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures.

Louise Erdrich

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Where I fit genre-wise, it's hard to tell. It's a fickle wind. But I have to believe there's always going to be a place for the songs inside of me.

Lizz Wright

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I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

Juan Gris

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Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.

Johnny Mathis

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I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine.

Domhnall Gleeson

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One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.

Dennis Crowley

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An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

Chet Faker

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We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe.

Boris Johnson

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I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.

Antonio Banderas

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