Susanne Langer Quotes
Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
Susanne Langer
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
Madeleine Albright
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
Fatty Arbuckle
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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
Harmony Korine
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
Laura Osnes
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
Edgardo Osorio
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Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.
Randi Weingarten
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
Rafael Palmeiro
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.
Zooey Deschanel
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What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
Alexander Pope
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The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out.
Jerry Della Femina
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Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
Lewis Carroll
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One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
George Stillman Hillard
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Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
Susanne Langer
