Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.
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I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase.
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I love being on Twitter and interacting with different people. Also, I very dangerously love to go shopping online!
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There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.
