Naum Gabo Quotes
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.
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It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.
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Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
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So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.
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What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee
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If she were to get her key back, she thought, no one but her would ever touch it. She would wind herself well in advance so that she would never need to rely on another to keep herself alive.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.
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Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.
