David Sylvester Quotes
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.David Sylvester
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
Pat Buchanan -
I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
Ed Rollins -
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand -
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
Mae West -
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
Hans Rosling
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
Samina Baig -
I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
Yogi Berra -
I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
Jack Bowman -
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
Ralph Ellison -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy -
The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
Ted Demme
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
Wayne Rogers -
Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
B. D. Wong -
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
Pankaj Mishra -
People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.
Vincent Cassel -
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman -
I have a great life and I'm super active.
A. J. Langer
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
Abbey Clancy -
My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
Oscar Wilde -
Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
Beck -
Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best.
William Watson -
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
Isaac Rosenberg -
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.
David Sylvester