Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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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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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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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'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.
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I lost my virginity to a record skip. 'Lay Lady Lay-Lay Lady Lay-Lay Lady Lay'. We didn't even get to the big brass bed part.
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And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
