Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Together, we are prepared to lay a foundation for a more secure future for the entire world
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I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.
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You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.
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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
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There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.
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Think before you think!
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A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.
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But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
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You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.
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Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.
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Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
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Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
