Benjamin Constant Quotes

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.

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• I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • College

• I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Crazy
  • About
  • Jewelry

• I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Hope

• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Start

• My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Growing

• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Character
  • Army
  • United States

• Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Laws

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Want
  • Change
  • Act

• And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

  

  Dan Rather
  • School
  • Remember
  • Loved

• As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Me
  • Confidence

• So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Success
  • Myself
  • Failure

• Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Good
  • You
  • Single

• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Action

• A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • India
  • Mozart

• Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Why
  • May

• If to serenade almost to man Is to miss, by that, things as they are, Say that it is the serenade Of a man that plays a blue guitar.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Blue

• My parents were always involved in community theatre, and I'd do the tech work and play the child.

  

  Mark Linn-Baker
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Community

• To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Character

• There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.

  

  Billie Piper
  • Great
  • Independent

• You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Trying
  • Purpose
  • Film

• Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.

  

  Benjamin Constant
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Achieves