Edgar Degas Quotes
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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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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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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I know about raising money.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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All we have is the past, but for people of the future, there's not even going to be a history there. The history of recorded music has turned into a flat fucking screen of an iTunes playlist. I'm preserving something that's going extinct! That's all rock'n'roll has been since day one. It's all necrophilia.
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I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.
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'The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality.'
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
