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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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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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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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.
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The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.
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By making the Word our final authority and making a quality decision to place our faith in God at all costs, we experience His best in every situation.
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As a believer in the free market, the sooner you have people with a job - the better chance they have a job, the sooner they are employed - the sooner they become consumers. And the sooner they become consumers, the sooner they become deciders about their own health care decisions.
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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.
