Peter Greenaway Quotes
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
Sam Harris -
Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
Daniel Bryan -
If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
Dana Carvey -
Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
Walter Kaufmann -
If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
Walt Mossberg -
Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
Padma Lakshmi
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
Fernando Pessoa -
假如办十件事,九件是坏的,都登在报上,一定灭亡。那我就走,到农村去,率领农民推翻政府,你解放军不跟我走,我就找红军去。【在庐山会议上的讲话(1959年7月23日)】
Mao Zedong -
They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful.
Tanith Lee -
A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
Margaret Sanger -
206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say 'yes' to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say 'I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
Ai Weiwei -
Qual d'acqua chiara il tremolante lume,Dal sol percossa o da' notturni rai,Per gli ampli tetti va con lungo saltoA destra et a sinistra, e basso et alto.
Ludovico Ariosto -
Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
Charli XCX -
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Louis Aragon -
It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.
Brandon Stanton
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There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
Bryan White -
But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.
Joseph Heller -
I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.
Mick Jones Foreigner -
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
El Greco -
Investigation is never complete.
Peter Greenaway