Ernst Fuchs Quotes
I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
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The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
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It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
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The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
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I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.
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In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.
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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.
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Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight...
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Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside about what will happen.
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I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.
