Martin Van Buren Quotes
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
Quotes to Explore
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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Before Turner there was no fog in London.
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I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
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Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
