Max Beerbohm Quotes
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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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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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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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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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
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Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
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You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.
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We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.
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Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.
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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
