Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes
At a time when there is so much tension in the world - between cultures, and nations, and so forth - there is nothing that levels the playing field more than the arts.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!
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Tension is the great integrity.
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So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.
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The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.
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I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.
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--I lifted one foot from the brackish water, and the bunny slippers were soaked and drooped pathetically. Even the fangs seemed robbed of any charm. "Don't worry," I told it. "Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming." I felt I should repeat it for the other slipper, in case there should be any bad feelings between the two. One should never create tension between ones's footwear. --POV is Myrnin, page 221
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There were tensions between these two organizations [Organization of Afro-American Unity and N.O.I.] , and Malcolm had to negotiate between them and since he was out of the country a great deal of the time, it was rather difficult for him to do so.
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Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
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I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
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I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
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Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.
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If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
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We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
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One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good.
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He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.
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I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.
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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
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I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
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At a time when there is so much tension in the world - between cultures, and nations, and so forth - there is nothing that levels the playing field more than the arts.
