Philip Johnson Quotes
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'
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Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.
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I buy the best fabrics from small mills in Italy. That is the basis for my clothes.
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On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind.
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The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
