Maurice Denis Quotes
The common error of us all in late Impressionism was to search above all for the light. It would have been better first to search for the Kingdom of God and his justice, that is to say for the expression of our spirit in beauty, and the rest would have arrived naturally.
Quotes to Explore
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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Writing a book is not a small undertaking, but God placed it on my heart to trust Him with such a project.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.
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Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
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Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.
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The common error of us all in late Impressionism was to search above all for the light. It would have been better first to search for the Kingdom of God and his justice, that is to say for the expression of our spirit in beauty, and the rest would have arrived naturally.
