Susanne Langer Quotes
A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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The struggle between the two worlds Fascism and Democracy can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief - either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
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Threads of Rosenquist and Warhol are all through my work. But I'm messier - and wetter. It's the female perspective. I'm not as tidy, and they were both very tidy.
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Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.
