George Plimpton Quotes
Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
George Plimpton
Quotes to Explore
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
Mandy Moore
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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
Hal Sparks
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Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.
Vicki Lawrence
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
Candice Patton
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
Fernando Botero
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai Lama
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You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.
Ed Balls
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I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.
Nadia Ali
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Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.
Ice T
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That little, small voice in your mind and in your heart that makes you curious about being vegan is something you should listen to, because that’s the sound of your conscience making you be compassionate.
Bellamy Young
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Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
David Suzuki
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There are so many amazing plant-based foods out there that I don't feel the urge to eat tofu bacon.
Ella Woodward
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It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
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My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career.
Alicia Silverstone
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi
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More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
Craig Brown
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The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.
Paul Davies
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Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
George Plimpton
