Lucille Clifton Quotes
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
Ad Reinhardt
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A. R. Ammons
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
Abraham Lincoln
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
H. R. McMaster
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
Dana Perino
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I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.
Rachel Hunter
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Knowing how people will use something is essential.
Donald Norman
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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I wasn't thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever. I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
Adrian Matejka
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Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.
Chrysippus
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I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
Roger Daltrey
The Who
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I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.
Lucille Clifton