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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God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
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I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.
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The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.
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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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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.
