Susanne Langer Quotes
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
Quotes to Explore
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.
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As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
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Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
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My point is that you cannot force social change at a speed that it cannot go. Social change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Deep social change takes time. And slowly the culture is changing. The MTV generation is far more tolerant, and that tolerance is growing.
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If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.
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All the emergency helicopters were flying, but so far they have not found anything especially worrying.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
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The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
