Amelia B. Edwards Quotes
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.
Amelia B. Edwards
Quotes to Explore
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.
Zack Snyder
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
Damon Galgut
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People say, 'What do you mean you want to help the world, but you're so concerned about fashion?' It's illegal to be naked. It is something that is extremely important.
Kanye West
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I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates innovation and risk taking, I think that's a principle that we've gotta hold to as well. But what I don't wanna do is get bottled up in a lot of ideology and is this conservative or liberal. My interest is finding something that works.
Barack Obama
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It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.
L. S. Lowry
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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
Nan Goldin
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You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.
William Shatner
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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
Tertullian
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You can be a business thinker.
Bill Gates
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I thought our bench was a huge lift. That's becoming a good basketball team ' every game you got different guys stepping up.
Dan Monson
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The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.
Ben Bova
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Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.
Michio Kaku
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.
Ursula Vernon
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Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Evo Morales
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It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.
Amelia B. Edwards
