Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
G. Willow Wilson -
It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
Baltasar Kormakur -
Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
Ban Ki-moon -
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
Ted Nelson -
Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
T. J. Miller -
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando -
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
A. R. Ammons -
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather -
We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.
Hamza Yusuf -
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
Nancy Pearcey -
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
Earl Blumenauer
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
Umberto Eco -
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
Walter Lord -
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
B. R. Hayden -
I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
Laura Marling -
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
Odilon Redon
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No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.
D. Elton Trueblood -
Isolation disfigures men Who think their separateness superior.
Brian Patten -
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.
Oscar Wilde -
Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
R.J. Rushdoony -
I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse
Christopher Ricks -
Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski