Jean Arp Quotes
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Small aim is a crime.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
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In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the theory of inevitability perhaps more completely than anybody else. And it solved in the very short term some of their debt problems, but in the medium- and long-term, it left them in real economic trouble.
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I am a workaholic, and I sometimes wish that there were 48 hours in a day. But I know how to manipulate my time beneficially.
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You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I’d never have time to do anything else.
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I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.
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Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
