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Jacques Barzun Quotes

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: November 30, 1907 - October 25, 2012

Topics

Work Day Fruit You Invisible See

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

Mark Wahlberg's, like, 150 pounds! I'm 250 lean. I look like Mark Wahlberg ate Mark Wahlberg.

Look Mark Like Lean Pounds Ate

I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don't care at all.

Mayer Hawthorne

Music People Me Listening Care Long

If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I'm pretty much a genius. I'm actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick.

Work People Genius You Person Meet

I don't throw things or yell.

Things Throw Yell

After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.

Good Day Fishing Ideas Solution

If I am through learning, I am through.

Learning I Am Through Am

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

Revolution White Politicians Poets

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

Music Trust Me Control Small Find

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Courage Bad Form Very

You put a real tough tight end with good hands in the hash area, and there won't be anyone who can cover him. Then you really control the passing game.

Good Control Game Tough End Hands

I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in the United States, one that functions in a manner that is as oppressive, in many respects, as the one that existed in South Africa under apartheid and that existed under Jim Crow here in the United States.

Michelle Alexander

Think Blind Country Africa Become

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