Classic Quotes - Page 39

• I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

  Leon Bridges

  Song, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I'm always afraid of is going "off-book,I always get upset when the director leaves the classic comic that was so very popular. I argued, and I won't say with who about what, but when we go way away from the original source material... that material is popular for a reason and I like to stick with it.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Book, Upset, Way

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• I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, Shoes, Ferguson

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Failure, Destiny, Europe

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• I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; World Music, Brit-pop, Classic Rock, Blues/Jazz, even the odd bit of Heavy metal.

  Rachel Miner

  Rocks, Taste, Eclectic Style

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun.

  India de Beaufort

  Girl, Fun, Fearless

  "Runway Insider: India de Beaufort Talks About Her Latest Collection". Interview with Style Council Samii, www.seventeen.com. September 13, 2012.

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• I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.

  Ty Simpkins

  Adventure, Cartoon, Tunes

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• For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season.

  Liya Kebede

  Accessories, Pieces, Pairs

  "4 Effortessly Chic Moms Talk Shop" by Kerry Pieri. Slide 3, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 10, 2013.

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• A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a remarkably wide range of examples and is distinguished by the relevance of its insights and by the precision and clarity of their exposition. It is an absorbing read that deserves to become a modern classic of political thinking.

  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

  Strong, Thinking, Leader

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• You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.

  Leslie West

  Rocks, Groups, Lucky

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• Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

  Gracie Gold

  Ice, Skating, Rich

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• Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done.

  Gracie Allen

  Food, Two, Cooking

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• Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.

  George Brandis

  Years, Australia, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

  Marie Corelli

  Mean, Style, Diction

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.304, Health Research Books

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• I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Philosophy, Italian

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• Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

  Pauline Kael

  Hollywood, Patterns, Want

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• One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.

  Jonathan Raban

  Drama, Fall, Eden

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• I don't believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.

  Tom Ford

  Strong, Believe, Cutting

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• A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Children, Suffering, Firsts

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”

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• Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.

  Alice Temperley

  Style, Twists, Bohemian

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• The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

  Shulamith Firestone

  Alternatives, Revolutionary, Traps

  Shulamith Firestone (1970). “The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution”

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• We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. 'New atheists' and reductive materialists conduct gladiatorial debates against defenders of faith and enemies of reductionism. Lots of heat is produced, but, alas, little light is shed. How marvelous it is, then, to see this fine new book by Lenn E. Goodman and Gregory Caramenico. Here is a learned, illuminating, and decidedly non-polemical treatment of the classic questions of soul, mind, and brain-an exemplary work of scholarship.

  Robert P. George

  Atheist, Memories, Book

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• The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can withstand all of these different interpretations and different styles and, that's what makes a classic character a classic character; they keep coming back and you see them in a new way every time.

  Laura Linney

  Character, Style, Way

  "Mr. Holmes: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 With Congo". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic.

  Cam Newton

  Trying, Dresses, Attention

  "The ESQ&A: Cam Newton on His New Clothing Line". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. April 9, 2013.

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