Edgar Degas Quotes
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.
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Art is the consciousness of currency.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Do not deny God. Do not blaspheme God. Do not murder. Do not engage in incest, adultery, pederasty or bestiality. Do not steal. Do not eat of a live animal. Establish courts/legal system to ensure obedience to the law.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
