Harold Bloom Quotes

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Harold Bloom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1930

Topics

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When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

John Glenn

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The way the vocal folds work is that they can get inflamed and in pain, but actual tears in the folds are somewhat rare. I've never torn anything. Been too strained plenty of times.

John Darnielle

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I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

Melissa McCarthy

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Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

John McKinley

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My father-in-law lives in Montana, and we would come here every summer.

Jeff Giles

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Communication is the channel through which life is conveyed, through which ideas and the energy behind them are transmitted, and through which the mind, body, and spirit are merged into a force for right action.

Michael Gerber

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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

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I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.

Toni Collette

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In regards to the reaction to Life Is Killing Me, I would say that I'm never happy about anything.

Josh Silver

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The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Dick Thornburgh

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I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

Douglas Rushkoff

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The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

Bruce Feirstein

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