M. C. Escher Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.
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I'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.
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As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.
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Rejoice when other scientists do not believe what you know to be true. It will give you extra time to work on it in peace. When they start claiming that they have discovered it before you, look for a new project.
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The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.
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My work is a game, a very serious game.
