Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes
For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
Babe Ruth
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
Karolyn Grimes
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
Ice T
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
Damon Wayans, Jr.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
W. G. Sebald
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
Iggy Azalea
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'Connor
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov -
Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
Alfred Amoroso
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Taken up with Hugh and Clark swapping baseball trivia. Clark often detailed yet another financial reversal. On the day he told us his house had burned down, we all, I think, accepted the news as somehow unexciting and inevitable.
John Metcalf
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Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.
Lennox Lewis
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The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.
Stephen Fry
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For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.
Kristen Soltis Anderson