Daniel Bell Quotes
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
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There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.
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Computing technology started out as number-crunching.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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What happened in the region in the last 30 years is not the Middle East. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, people wanted to copy this model in different countries; one of them is Saudi Arabia. We didn't know how to deal with it. And the problem spread all over the world.
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I learned that life, it's beautiful to be alive. I saw a lot of people dead there. When I got out of there, I was happy I was out, happy I was alive.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
