Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. … But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
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I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. … But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
