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Herb Caen Quotes

The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 3, 1916 - February 1, 1997

Topics

Man Humility World Looking Small

The same critics who destroyed 'Seven Streams' when we opened in Edinburgh - and yes, it was horrible - called it one of the most important shows of the 21st century six years later in London.

Important London Critics Same Years

I wish I was more adventurous.

Wish More I Wish Adventurous

I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.

Work Morning Wife Night Week House

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

Music Deep Early Late Hip-Hop Sound

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

Brave Say Will Be Brave Because

In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Culture Experience Wife College Me

I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.

Clothes Know Wash Like Station

I haven't lost my blues roots.

Christine McVie

Roots Blues Lost

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

Achieve Way Always Going Get Our

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

Alicia Silverstone

Busy Never Always Film Actress Knew

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

Life Nature Good Trees Everything

Fame is like being at a party and getting invited into the cool room even the VIPs can't get into, then the even cooler, more exclusive room after that. Eventually, you end up in a cubicle on your own, asking, 'Am I having fun?'

Fun Cool Having Fun End You Party

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