Martin Filler Quotes
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
Randy Harrison
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J. B. Priestley
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Dana Carvey
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
Zach LaVine
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
Lady Gaga
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
Harland Williams
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
Dakota Blue Richards
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Mao Zedong
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We don't quite have the same comic book culture as America, but I would watch Spider-Man cartoons and X-Men cartoons and watch Bond as much as anyone on the planet.
Taron Egerton
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
Damian Marley
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
Maajid Nawaz
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
Edmund H. North
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
Ted Sarandos
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
Vera Farmiga
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
Fat Joe
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In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors.
Chellie Pingree
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As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.
Annie Jacobsen
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I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.
Viggo Mortensen
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The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
Charles Eastman
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The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.
Mark McKinnon
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From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.
Martin Filler