Northrop Frye Quotes
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.
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I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
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The idea that either individuals or organisations are 'too big to fail' or that the tech and start-up sector is somehow different is wrong.
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I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.
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I don't believe I've ever met a homosexual.
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When I was a kid, it was so important to listen only to bands nobody had ever heard of. I missed out on so much interesting music because of my need to listen to a psychobilly band that only two people knew about... Because I thought I was cool.
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I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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Islam cannot have a significant presence in Australia if we are to live in an open, secular, and cohesive society. We have seen the destruction it is causing around the world.
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The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
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People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
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We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.
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Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
