Brassaï Quotes
Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
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To me, right there, enough said - Kobe Bryant (third team), not acceptable.
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My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.
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All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?
