Terry Teachout Quotes

Just as most of us prefer to watch a trapeze artist work without a net, we like to be absolutely sure that a virtuoso is giving us our money's worth, and a seemingly effortless performance, no matter how spectacular it may be, deprives us of that slightly sadistic thrill.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1956

Topics

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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

Jesse Jackson

TomorrowYouKnowNeedWhoHolds

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

John McCain

OpportunityJusticePeopleWorld

Once you're in a network, you can do a whole bunch of things to that network. It's just that NSA doesn't have the authority to do that.

Michael Hayden

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I am not a coward.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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I hate speeches.

Travis Fimmel

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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Mary Astell

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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Michel de Montaigne

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I just love writing songs and singing them. People seem to enjoy them, and that's all you can really ask for. I didn't get into it to try to be a celebrity or whatever.

Luke Combs

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I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge, then I could join Footlights. My problem was that I went to a comprehensive in Brighton. I thought I'd have to start from a good school, and the best I could think of was Roedean.

Lucy Griffiths

GoodBestSchoolParentsMeStart

To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

Devin Nunes

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Obama seems like he tries to talk everyone into what he believes - and that's part of why we elected him, because he's a calm, reasonable guy - but behind that, there has to be some fight. You have to be able to take a few punches and throw a few punches.

Dee Dee Myers

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Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest.

Clive Sinclair

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