El Lissitzky Quotes
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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We like to crystallize something in the audience's brain that makes them say, 'Hey I really want to watch that. I'm really interested in it.'
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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The first time we went to the ACMs, no one really knew who we were.
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The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it's impossible to be 'in' forever.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.
