Antonio Machado Quotes
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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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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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
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For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
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There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.
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It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.
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Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
