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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Sometimes they seem like living shapes, - The people of the sky, - Guests in white raiment coming down From heaven, which is close by; I call them by familiar names, As one by one draws nigh.
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Così fa ch'ella un poco il duol raffrena;Ch'avendo ove sfogarlo, è meno acerbo.
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Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.
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With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!
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I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.
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Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
