Eugene Delacroix Quotes
Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.
Quotes to Explore
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.
