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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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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Torremolinos has no Jesus Gil, no pretty little old town, and no resident celebrities to sing its praises.
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I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
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I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.
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Come year-end, there will be more capital deployed in newspace in 2016 than 2015. I see that trend continuing for the foreseeable future.
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Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.
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Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
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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.
