Willa Cather Quotes
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
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Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
