Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?
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I'm a character actor.
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People take things so seriously.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
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I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.
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When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.
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As withered weed through cruell winters tine, That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection, Liftes up his head, that did before decline And gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.
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Fair Elphin, dry your cheeks! Such sorrow does not become you, Although you consider yourself cheated Excessive sorrow gains nothing, Nor will doubting God's miracles.
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In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
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The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.
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I don't have any doubt in my mind: I could knock out any man in the heavyweight division.
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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
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Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?
