Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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A photograph can express silence.
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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
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When you say your prayers try to understand
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.
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I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
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To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.
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Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.
