Walter Pater Quotes
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.Walter Pater
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
Zach Galligan -
My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
Umberto Eco -
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming -
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin -
I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
Nate Silver
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci -
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Kara DioGuardi -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
Pat Gillick -
I'm such a perfectionist.
Candice Glover -
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
Damon Albarn Blur -
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
Rahul Kohli -
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung -
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
Flip Wilson -
I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.
James Wan
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I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and... actually, it is fine.'
Tamsin Greig -
The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.
Keith Haring -
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Walter Pater