Edmond de Goncourt Quotes
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
Quotes to Explore
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don't understand. There's a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.
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YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans.
Chad Hurley -
If I read something on the news that really irritates me, I get my rageful venting out on Twitter. I'm more of my light side on Instagram.
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Defend my honor - Protect my pride
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Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.
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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
