Edouard Vuillard Quotes
To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
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A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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we made love on the living room floorwith the noise in the background of a televised warand in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone sayif we walk away they'll walk away
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.
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We did 10 years of working and travelling constantly, and we were just knackered. I thought: 'I've got to take a break.' I felt like I was going mad. I decided to move to Cornwall.
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When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
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The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.
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To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
