Edward Tufte Quotes
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
Quotes to Explore
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Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
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The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.
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The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
