John Howe Quotes
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
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The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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...the news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on.
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A dictionary is a reference book that lists the words of one or more languages, usually in alphabetical order, along with information about their spelling, pronunciation, grammatical status, meaning, history, and use.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
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Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
