Henry Kissinger Quotes
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov
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I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
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Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
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I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.
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I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.
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People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.
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Anything simple always interests me.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
