Arthur Danto Quotes
In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
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I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
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As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I journey afar or for me to view their lives from my perch back home.
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In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.
