Quote by Jonathan Raban
Critics? Dont talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes jou

Critics? Dont talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I dont. – Jonathan Raban

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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. – Jonathan Raban

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Rejection
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Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after theyre dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. – Jonathan Raban

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Dreams
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The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obamas Dreams From My Father is Jimmy Carters short campaign autobiography, Why Not the Best?, published in 1975. – Jonathan Raban

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Dreams
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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. – Laurence J. Peter

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Failure

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. – Paul Tillich

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Failure

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. – Ann Landers

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Failure

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didnt have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city. – Michael Chertoff

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Failure

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a months study of books. – Chinese Proverb

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My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time Im home. – Levon Helm

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dad

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Chance

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking were going to win. – Kevin OLeary

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Business