Johan Huizinga Quotes
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.Johan Huizinga
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
Laura Schlessinger -
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel -
I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
Floyd Abrams -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicolson -
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
Cam -
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
Earl Warren -
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
Natasha Little -
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
Fede Alvarez -
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang -
I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
Hannah Kent -
It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
Usain Bolt -
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
A. N. Wilson -
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Barbra Streisand
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
Eckhart Tolle -
Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs -
I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
Victor Mature -
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
Malcolm X -
Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.
E. Nesbit -
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
Johan Huizinga