Ashley Bickerton Quotes
Through the last few decades it the art object has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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I'm really funny now.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.
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The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
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What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
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It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.
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The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
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You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
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I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music.
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When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
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Through the last few decades it the art object has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.
