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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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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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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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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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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Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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I never think too hard about a look. When you consider an outfit too much, that's when it goes wrong.
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As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
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Everybody gets through a phase where it's, 'Ah, if I could just sound just like Vince Gill.' Then you figure out that you have your own voice, whether you like it or not, and that's what you should stick with.
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I will, till the day I die, be an advocate for the d-word: diversity.
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It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.
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Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
