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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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
Rumi
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The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that.
Yair Lapid
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I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
Dolly Parton
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Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
Barton Gellman
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When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you.
When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you.
Rhonda Byrne
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Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
W. H. Auden
