Mark Akenside Quotes
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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I think theater is a core need of a community.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
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How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?
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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
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The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'
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I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
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Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.
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'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.
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I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.
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We went to America a few times and Brian Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George Harrison and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.
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The pain of retirement means loss.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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The downside of being a dean is that I'd rather drop off my son at (Michael Jackson's) Neverland Ranch than go to all those meetings.
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We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.
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Than Timoleon's arms require,And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.
