Michelangelo Quotes
Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
Quotes to Explore
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Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.
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That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
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Midas me no midas.
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
