Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
Lance Ito
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
Barry Commoner
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
Tariq Ramadan
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As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
Eddie Redmayne
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All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
Rabih Alameddine
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
Ed Koch
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Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
Jason Calacanis
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When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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I think that during college, I would say I did not enjoy playing soccer.
Christen Press
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Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.
Jonathan Swift
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Outside' was more of a personal project. This, the 'African Giant', is more of an African project.
Burna Boy
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Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
