Neville Brody Quotes
We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.
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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.
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You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
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Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
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Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
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Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.
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You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.
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All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
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A lot of what I write is very personal.
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The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.
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When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.
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We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.
