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A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1938 - September 1, 1989

Topics

Responsibility Social Responsibility

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

Friend Man Law Enemy Looks Poor

The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our home, our home planet. And it's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. It's like looking into Heaven. It's paradise.

Michael J. Massimino

Home Looking Heaven Paradise Earth

We're reclaiming America and restoring honor. I believe we do that with faith, with hope, with charity, and honoring our brothers and our sisters as we honor each other.

Faith Hope Believe Charity Honor

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Character Problems Thinking You Just

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

Work Best Me Know Done More

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

Fun Stage Pay Get So Much Fun Much

For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I was a child, I have been fascinated by science fiction. My all-time favorite is 'The Foundation Trilogy,' by Isaac Asimov.

Good Science Child Reading Physics

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

Michael Shermer

Today Brain Body Born Month Atoms

I love my stuff - you're not supposed to say that. But because I'm performer as well as a writer, I'm constantly interacting with my own work. I always get to find these little secrets that I left for myself, little notes - I find them all over the scores.

Jason Robert Brown

Work Love Myself You Find Secrets

A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.

Work Learning Good School Research

I keep training hard, keep working out, keep looking at my fights, and I wonder, 'If I was to fight me, how would I beat me?' It's like having a boat with a bunch of holes. I'm trying to patch up all the holes. If I was to fight myself, I'd take advantage of certain things. I've got to know my opponent is thinking the same thing.

Myself Training Fight Me Boat Know

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Winston Churchill

Best Words Short Old Speaking

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