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.
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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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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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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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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 don't exercise.
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You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.
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Honour is the mysticism of legality.
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I had to go to the store, I had decided, to bring back some apples - and I went past the store that sold apples and I kept driving, and driving. I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon.
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The connection I have with my fans is so important, and I want to break the boundaries and break the barriers between an artist and a crowd. It is so important, and I learn so much through my fans, and they help me.
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I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.
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You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.
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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.
