Elie Faure Quotes
God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.Elie Faure
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
Edmund Morgan -
Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
Iris Apfel -
I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
Mandy Moore -
I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
Barry Jenkins -
It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
Oliver Tambo -
Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
Pankaj Mishra
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
Sam Raimi -
I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.
Madison Davenport -
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
Rand Paul -
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith -
Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.
Karen Salmansohn
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
Vanity -
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Earl Warren -
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Gavin Bryars -
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
Harold H. Greene -
I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
Action Bronson
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
Viggo Mortensen -
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
Victor Hugo -
A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.
Sean Penn -
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Tertullian -
God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.
Elie Faure