Denis Dutton Quotes
I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.
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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.
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San Francisco is a wonderful city, but you do have housing issues. If tech companies don't do the right thing, they can dislocate a lot of what makes San Francisco special. At Workday, we want to be on the right side of that.
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I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.
