Thomas Aquinas Quotes
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Quotes to Explore
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Age for me is just a number.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.
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I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.
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I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'
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Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
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Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.
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I knew police officers have a very difficult job. They have to make split second decisions that will impact not only the communities they serve but their families, their own personal lives.
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I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
