Susanne Langer Quotes
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
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When I won't have work, say, after seven or eight years, or when I retire, I can't imagine leaving Hyderabad, because I love this city that much.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
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My general taste is towards the melancholy.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.
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Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?
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Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
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The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.
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Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
