Ilya Ehrenburg Quotes
Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.
Quotes to Explore
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.
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If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.
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Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.
