Thomas Hardy Quotes
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I get homesick.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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My favorite part of designing bridal is that I will be a part of the most important day in a woman's life. My work needs to make her feel sophisticated, glamorous, sexy, and comfortable.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
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I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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I'm not really into rap.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
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Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
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I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.
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You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.
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The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
