Susan Sontag Quotes
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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I'm a huge Top 40 lover.
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It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.
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There's been roles that I have turned down. There's no rule book or handbook... It's just... whatever I'm comfortable with.
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Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
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Evil be to him who evil thinks.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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Neo-soul caught my attention more than any other sub-genre. I was really attracted by that sound. It made me do what I do musically: trying to find the same type of vibes, those nostalgic vibes.
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There are just some things that you can't deny.
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Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.
