Johan Huizinga Quotes
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.Johan Huizinga
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
Taylor Lautner -
I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
Viggo Mortensen -
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
Eddy Arnold -
I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
Malik Jackson -
I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
Kat Graham
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett -
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
Nancy Gibbs -
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
Naomi Wolf -
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
Lamar Alexander -
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
Ferran Adria
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
Sam Graves -
With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
Taya Kyle -
I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.
Omar Dorsey -
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
Gabriel Heatter -
Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
Randy West
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We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
Baron d'Holbach -
I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God can only serve to confirm the ignorant in their superstitions.
John Calvin -
Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
Kurtis Blow -
I think for the open-minded, I'm a lot like Luciano Pavarotti... But I don't know the technique. I'm learning. I think Pavarotti was a citizen of the world. He was very eclectic. He sang with Sting and with a lot of other pop artists, and this open-mindedness, for me, is very important.
Amaury Vassili -
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
Johan Huizinga