Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Quotes
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.
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Every year, I assign myself to make a beautiful art piece which is my musical project for the year.
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A lot of people are blowing Shogun's fight with Mark Coleman out of proportion. He was coming off an injury, and he gassed early on in his first fight back.
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When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
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There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also the most rewarding.
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Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.
