Denis Donoghue Quotes
The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I don't like controversy.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.
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Swami Apasthanand is still there, he is very old now, but I had gone to see him and stayed with him for quite some time. But it is a different world, why get into it here.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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'I don’t trust you.''Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.'
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Creative tension is constructive. Its purpose is to bring out the very best in management so that senior executives can generate the greatest value for shareholders, stakeholders, and society at large.
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When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
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Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.
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The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
