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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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
V. S. Naipaul -
The trouble with 'sacrifices as symbolic acts' is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades, while the impact on those who actually make the sacrifice can go on and on.
Preston Manning -
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
Charles Stanley -
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
Kathe Kollwitz -
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
Johan Huizinga