Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck -
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
Gabrielle Aplin -
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
Samuel Alexander -
I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.
Maajid Nawaz
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson -
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann -
Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
Pamela Meyer -
Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
Dan Jenkins -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz -
I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
Laura Mennell -
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
Walter Crane -
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler -
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie -
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
Patrick Duffy
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And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
Samantha Bond -
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Harry Day -
Social enterprise is an effective solution for social problems.
Chey Tae-won -
I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.
Ben Elliot -
I always thought of words as art supplies.
Douglas Coupland