Patti Smith Quotes
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
Quotes to Explore
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.
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I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.
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You know to make his rigid, tedious, boring paintings seem at least a little human, the Mondrian enthusiasts keep insisting that Mondrian was a great tango dancer.
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How I'm portrayed in films has more to do with the filmmaking and what they need in the story than anything else. I'm the same person I've always been, I just get used in different ways according to the filmmakers' needs - which is fine with me; it makes for great films.
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Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
