Ellen Dissanayake Quotes
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.
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Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.
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I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
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I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.
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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
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I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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My weakness is chocolate - especially butterscotch and nut varieties.
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I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.
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In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.
