Harold Bloom Quotes

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

Harold Bloom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Jim Yong Kim

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We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.

Jochen Zeitz

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Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

Joel Osteen

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As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

John Harwood

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Nick Kroll, A.D. Miles, Chelsea Peretti - those were the people I was always doing open mics with.

John Mulaney

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Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

Anna Netrebko

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The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors.

Stella Young

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I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

Roman Coppola

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I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

Jason Bateman

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I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

Denis Leary

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A lot of wide receivers, they always run their routes at 100% speed. As a DB, that allows you to get a feel for how you need to play them.

Chris Harris, Jr.

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I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen.

Chris Christie

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