Anton Chekhov Quotes
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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I'm more for the style than the brand. I don't go brand shopping; I go detail shopping.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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I'm very interested in science.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
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I love science fiction.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is tantamount to saying that it is acceptable to distort asset prices if there are other domestic constraints on growth.
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If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.
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My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.
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I think of music videos as commercials for songs.
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
