Marina Warner Quotes
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
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I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.
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I do a kind of homeschooling where some of it's on the computer and some of it's classes around the city. So sometimes I'll have a class in the morning or do school at home.
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The greatest crime of Marxism wasn't simply that much of what it claimed was false but that it claimed to be the sole and utterly complete path to understanding life and reality.
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The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.
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If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
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Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.
