William Lethaby Quotes
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.
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You win all the Tucsons, all the Kemps, all the Iron City Opens you can, nobody remembers. You win a Masters, nobody ever forgets.
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If cooking is an art, I think we're in our Dada phase.
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Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.
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It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
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Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
