Susanne Langer Quotes
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
Kamala Harris -
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Lafcadio Hearn -
Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
Vern Buchanan
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
Laura Wade -
My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
Hafez -
When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
Francesca Lo Schiavo -
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth -
I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
Aaron Koblin
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'What is my identity?' 'Nothing,' said the Master. 'You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?' said the incredulous disciple. 'Nothing that can be labeled.' said the Master.
Anthony de Mello -
I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
When it comes to the greater Middle East, McMaster brings to the table his own deep knowledge of Iraq and Afghanistan, countries where he served for many years.
Peter Bergen -
You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.
Janet Erskine Stuart -
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
James Mill -
At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
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The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.
Peter Bichsel -
The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.
Dean Devlin -
Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The increase of visual stress among the Greeks alienated them from the primitive art that the electronic age now reinvents after interiorizing the 'unified field' of electric all-at-onceness. (p. 72)
Marshall McLuhan -
The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
Susanne Langer