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Jacques Barzun Quotes

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Business Stop Way Split Principle

When I look at myself, I'm not a big man - I'm a guard. I can do everything on the basketball court. You can name it - pass, post up, shoot the ball, bring the ball up, being a playmaker - so I'm excited to break that stereotype.

Myself Man Basketball Name You Look

I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.

John Corigliano

Competition People Win Think Done

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

Movies Make Repression About Lot

I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney.

Work Best New Never Years Things

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

Sonia Sotomayor

Myself Baby Action Talking Started

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Purpose Happy Moving Design Unknown

If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.

Mary Lou Jepsen

You More Something Make Much Lot

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Life Live Music Best Listening You

The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

Jean Baudrillard

God World Way Right Judgment Always

Now some are saying maybe $1.6 trillion in is not enough maybe we should look at $2 trillion.

Saying Enough Look Now Some Should

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

Work Painting Think You Too Much

The first time you go out and perform at WrestleMania, it's a very challenging thing. It's the showcase of immortals, and you don't know what to expect, and every WrestleMania is different.

Time You Go Know First Time First

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