Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I can always go back to education.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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Everybody has problems.
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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.
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Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
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Everyone's crazy except you and me.
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Something had to happen between them. Two people cannot play a conspiracy for so long, and play it each on his own. There came a moment, when, in the dross of lies, the truth, known to them both, had to be asserted, and for their own sanity, shared.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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In 1989, I had a fellowship to teach for Yale in China for two years. I came back from California to New Haven to spend the summer learning Chinese, but because of Tiananmen Square, Yale cancelled the program.
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If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.
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The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
