Arthur Wesley Dow Quotes
Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
Quotes to Explore
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
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Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
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I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
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If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
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I have a lot of male friends.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
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A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.
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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
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If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.
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...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
