Quotes with classic

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  • Mark Twain A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl Van Doren A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Ezra Pound A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bruce Campbell A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • Bruce Feirstein Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Mark Twain Classic. A book which people praise and don't read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alan Bennett Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Burn Gorman I know in Britain with 'Doctor Who' all the classic actors, and the people who you'd really want to, work on the show. I like that the fact that 'Torchwood' has actors that want to be involved from the stage. It has raised our game, and I'm just happy for good actors who want to be in sci-fi shows who love the genre.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Anita Diamant I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Ang Lee I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Alexander McQueen I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
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  • Brooke Burke I'd kind of like to have a classic old muscle car. I think that would be fun.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Julius Epstein If I'd known it was going to be a classic, I would have paid attention.
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  • Carine Roitfeld If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Beanie Sigel It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
    Beanie Sigel
    American rapper and actor (1974 - )
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  • Blake Anderson My favorite album of all time is 'In A Major Way.' Look it up, it is a classic!
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Bob Seger My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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