John Clute Quotes
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.John Clute
Quotes to Explore
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
Karl Jaspers -
I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
Larry Wilcox -
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
Salman Khan -
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Wayne Dyer -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
Tariq Ramadan
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk -
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
Mahalia Jackson -
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
Fernando Botero -
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
Laura Mennell -
I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
Hale Irwin -
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
Gail Sheehy -
Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
Kate Forsyth -
When something really grabs me, I dive into it.
Kiesa Rae Ellestad
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If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.
Pablo Picasso -
In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.
Stephen Sondheim -
There is no point in developing anything at the cost of exploiting and abusing animals.
Kat Von D -
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.
John Clute