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.

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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
  • America
  • War

• 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 remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Perfect

• 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

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• 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

• Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Child
  • Labor
  • Trade

• My earlier days were all about playing, writing songs and producing songs. In the early 90's my former wife, Marylata Elton, got tapped to run the music department for DreamWorks. She worked right under Hans Zimmer during the heady days of Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Chicken Run, Gladiator just to name a few. She was and still is, one of the great music executives and has quite a career path of her own.

  

  Danny Jacob
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Running

• Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Driving

• The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Important
  • Health

• I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.

  

  Louis Oosthuizen
  • Up
  • Golf
  • Garden

• 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