Ernest Dimnet Quotes
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
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But don't worry... only yours is right.
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I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.
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Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!
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Of course I base my characters partly on the people I know-one can’t escape it-but fictional characters are oversimplified; they’re much less complex than the people one knows.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.
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Cruisin on the grey snakes till my dyin dayCheckin all the hen houses out along the wayWastin time and drinkin wineLife is short and I ain't lyinLivin all I can through every day.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.
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Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation. (p. 77)
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If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
