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• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Questions
  • Answers
  • Damage

• Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Looking
  • Jeans
  • Potato

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Light
  • Simple

• Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Financial
  • More
  • Accountants

• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Movie
  • Commitment
  • Reflection

• You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Health
  • Fight
  • Healthy

• I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Same
  • Strength

• I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • May
  • Space

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Truth
  • History
  • Period

• As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Men
  • Job

• Health care should be affordable for everyone.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Health
  • Care
  • Everyone

• Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Freedom
  • Ruin
  • Brings

• When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Cool
  • Young
  • Street

• Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Past
  • Moving
  • Hurt

• Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Mistakes
  • Memory

• It is very likely that there are many, many planets carrying life, even intelligent life, thoughout the universe, because there are so many stars. By sheer chance, even if those chances are small, a great many life forms and a great many intelligences may exist.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Great
  • May

• The American people have pulled together in an amazing show of unity to help the Gulf Coast region, and I am proud of our citizens, ... Now, it is time for the U.S. House of Representatives to do the same.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Advice

• You have to practice until you die.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Die
  • Practice

• Big government makes small citizens.

  

  Mark Steyn
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