Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
E. W. Howe
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Nat King Cole
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
Gabriel Marcel
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
Imogen Cunningham
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
J. R. Moehringer
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Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.
Ben Jonson
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
Anthony Trollope
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I can assure you I'm quite sane and have proof that dialog 'works.'
Betty Williams
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
Abraham Flexner
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass
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If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy