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.

Edgar Degas

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• History
• Strong
• Desire

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• Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

  

  K. Flay
  • Something
  • Rich
  • Hip Hop

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• 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.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Business
  • Beautiful
  • Learn

• I'm still learning my craft.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Learning
  • Still
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• I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Watching
  • Bull

• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Enjoy

• Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Money
  • Help
  • Strong

• Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Rural

• 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.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Done
  • Stop

• We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• 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.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • House
  • Hand
  • Like

• We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • You
  • Couple
  • Pride

• 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.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Lived

• 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.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• I know about raising money.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Money
  • Know
  • Raising

• 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.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • Love
  • Fun

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

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Universe
  • Acting
  • Choose

• I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Mind
  • Treasury
  • Witticism

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Wisdom
  • Darkness

• You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

  

  Christopher Cross
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Art

• We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Believe
  • She
  • Sister

• She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • History
  • Strong