El Lissitzky Quotes
Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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A lot of comedians are selfish.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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'You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.'
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A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.
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Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
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Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
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Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.
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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
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What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
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The horse is a mirror to your soul... and sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror.
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Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.
