Aubrey Beardsley Quotes
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'
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There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me 'cause I guess it's the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that - I always have to try and dress up and create something.
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
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Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.
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My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.
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Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.
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C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
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There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.
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I met Kanye. I'm starstruck, man, but I stayed away from that guy. I didn't want him to go on a rant, go off on me. He did it at his wedding.
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The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.
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We have to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. ... How are we going to do it? We're going to do it by having the wealthy pay their fair share and close the corporate loopholes.
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We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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A being in a bonnet is not therefore a woman, a being with a beard is not therefore a man, nor yet is a wolf in sheepskin a lamb.
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Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
