Arne Jacobsen Quotes

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

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• Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

  

  Fernando Botero
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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
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  • Law

• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
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• Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
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• A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
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• I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
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• I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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• Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

  

  Irving Kirsch
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• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
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• Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

  

  Fred Brooks
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• Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

  

  Craig Bruce
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• If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
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• She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

  

  Arne Jacobsen
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