Charles Rennie Mackintosh Quotes
Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
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It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.
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Così fa ch'ella un poco il duol raffrena;Ch'avendo ove sfogarlo, è meno acerbo.
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Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.
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By the time you do what somebody else is doing, everybody has moved on to something else.
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The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity.
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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
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Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.
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You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.
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Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
