M. C. Escher Quotes
I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.
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I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.
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I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.
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I know what it's like to not know where you're going or how to get there. I know what it's like to have no one around you who can teach you how to be what you hope to become.
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I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.
