Northrop Frye Quotes
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.
Quotes to Explore
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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I have heard of that idea i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that I would be replaced by the oncoming generation, and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.
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The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
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O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!
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In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been emminent in that profession?
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When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
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Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.
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I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.
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When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
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One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.
