Edgar Degas Quotes

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Edgar Degas

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• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• Twitter should ban my mother.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Twitter

• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Public
  • Transportation

• The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • War
  • America

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Technology
  • Better

• I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Care
  • Washington

• Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Focus

• Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Mind
  • Alone
  • Thought

• You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Art
  • Opinion
  • Perfection

• The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Gun

• I didn't choose acting. The universe did.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Universe
  • Acting
  • Choose

• I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Enjoy

• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Thought

• When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Person
  • Feel

• Alexander, were you looking for me?

  

  Paullina Simons

• There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Color

• When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it will be a great place.

  

  Philip Roth
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• As much as a lot of my music is very R&B, there's a bounce to it that obviously makes it easier to perform live. It's upbeat and uptempo.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Music
  • Live

• And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

  

  Mel Tillis
  • Up
  • Music
  • Church

• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study