William Morris Quotes
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!
Quotes to Explore
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
Yoshiro Mori
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
Joanne Rowling
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
Pamela Stephenson
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
Wanda Sykes
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
Jack Levine
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
Patrice O'Neal
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
Sally Phillips
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
Natasha Henstridge
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
Omar Bongo
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
Carl Sandburg
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
Dan Fogler
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
Caitlin Stasey
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
Yves Behar
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
Iris Chang
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
Carice van Houten
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
Ed Weeks
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With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.
Lynsey Addario
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One of my first purchases after I signed to RCA was a BMW. I was driving on the highway, and I heard 'Don't' come on. It was a real moment.
Bryson Tiller
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Obviously, everyone needs to find a system and playing style that suits you more.
Kevin De Bruyne
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It’s tradition. I remove a head, I bring it backstage, I place it on Mr. Fertitta and Mr. White’s desk. 'Here you go boss. Another one done.' And then we discuss big business.
Conor McGregor
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So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!
William Morris