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Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

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• Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Purpose
  • Ownership

• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Action

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Nothing
  • Talking
  • Someone

• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Looking

• There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Children
  • Better
  • Makeup

• Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Me
  • Doubt
  • Human

• It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Gold

• I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Food
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Interesting
  • Most
  • Parts

• The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • American
  • Reality
  • Same

• I'm not here to judge Mike Tyson. I'm not here to judge nobody. I'm not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Judge
  • Boxing

• One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• What happened at the prison, it is now clear, was not the result of random acts by 'a few bad apples,' it was the natural consequence of the Bush Administration policy that has dismantled those wise constraints and has made war on America's checks and balances.

  

  Al Gore
  • War
  • America
  • Bad

• I go inside the Octagon for fight. I don't joke, because it's danger.

  

  Anderson Silva

• While everyone usually turns up late at Bollywood parties, I always reach these places on time and end up making a fool of myself.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fool

• I like any song that can tell a story that people can relate to.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Song

• Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.

  

  Alfred Lin
  • Good

• I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.

  

  David Dobkin
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

  

  Barry McGee
  • World
  • Art
  • I Can

• Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • People
  • World
  • Silent

• Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.

  

  R. W. Apple
  • World
  • Fighting
  • Week

• People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

  

  JR artist
  • World
  • Art
  • Change