Joyce Cary Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
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'What kind of idiot do you think I am?''I have no idea what kind of idiot you are,' Miss Jesczenka said. 'That’s why I’m asking.'
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We have to make bureaucracy sexy.
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Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
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God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
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A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man.
