Mark Rothko Quotes
I am dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
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I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
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I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
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I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human.
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All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.
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Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.
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There's something about having people around you giving you support that is - it's motivating, and once I got that support from people then I believed I could do anything.
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When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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I am dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
