Hippolyte Taine Quotes
I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.
Quotes to Explore
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.
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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.
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I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating history. I think of the works as having this dormant illness that can really latch on to different histories. So they can exist in a world pretending to be neatly encapsulated, already framed, and fixed. But actually they are these parasites dependent on the failure of modernist history and on multiplicity.
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What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…
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I learn new things all the time.
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I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.
