Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.
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The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
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In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.
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Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.
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Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'
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Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.
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I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.
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Writing a book is not a crime.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing eyes. And, like him, I was verbal, easygoing, and low-key on the surface, and, deep down, proud, socially paranoid, full of self-loathing, and prone to rage at injustice.
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Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
