David Lewis-Williams Quotes
Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an evolving ‘aesthetic sense’, as some writers suggest.David Lewis-Williams
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
Yitzhak Rabin -
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.
Karlie Kloss -
No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
Paloma Faith -
A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
Adam Cohen
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I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
Ed Rendell -
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
Talcott Parsons -
My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
Fanny Howe -
It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.
Rachel McAdams -
I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.
Isaac Hayes -
Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
Xavier Dolan
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Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
Vaclav Havel -
Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
Antonio Porchia -
We're doing what we want to do, playing what we want to play, we're looking like we want to look, we're saying what we want to say. In rock that's done a lot, but in country it's not.
Natalie Maines -
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
Oscar Wilde -
The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.
Margaret Truman -
The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.
Ziauddin Sardar
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
Samira Wiley -
If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
Abbas Kiarostami -
We tend to get what we expect.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an evolving ‘aesthetic sense’, as some writers suggest.
David Lewis-Williams