"Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about."

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Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

Darryl Pinckney

#Talking Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Working It Quotes

“Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.”

Source : Will Hutton (2011). “The State We're In: (Revised Edition)”, p.242, Random House
“The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.”
“Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existence as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for example.”
“Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.”
“I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.”
“Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things we use today, it was a vision that led to the total transformation of the planet.”
“I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.”
“It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.”

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