Eric Drooker Quotes

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

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• Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Mistake

• It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the environment and for the air we breathe. The use of biodiesel is a positive step toward minimizing pollutive emissions and greenhouse gases. By focusing on school buses, we can affect the health and wellbeing of the people most susceptible to that pollution - our children - today.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • People
  • Long
  • Important

• I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Work
  • Yoga
  • Injure

• A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

  

  Allen Grossman
  • House
  • Cat
  • Poem

• Getting arrested is fun.

  

  Dan Mathews
  • Getting
  • Arrested

• Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Experience
  • Problem
  • Desires

• Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

  

  Isla Fisher
  • Important
  • Proud
  • Who We Are

• Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.

  

  John Warner
  • Security
  • Nations
  • Conditions

• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Deity
  • Complicate
  • Midway

• When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Generations
  • Enthusiasm
  • Adults

• Economy is the thief of time.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Economy
  • Thief

• Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Most
  • Global Warming
  • Global

• The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.

  

  Archimedes
  • Earth
  • Perimeter
  • Stadia

• He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Thinkers
  • Fireman
  • Intellectual Life

• Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square, For Anti-War Meeting Friday." I've been operating that way ever since - that art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Picture
  • Union

• In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Expressing
  • Art School