Ben Shahn Quotes
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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I come from a poor family.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
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Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.
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The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
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There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy.
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I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.
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I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.
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I think there are pros and cons to social networking, but on a social, personal level, it's just not for me.
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Anybody I grew up with in this area - they're still a mate. Lots of people in the Prahran area gave me my first go. Sold me my trucks on... I don't know, 100 deposit and 100 a month. Without the support of those guys, you'd still sort of be driving a truck.
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Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.
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I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
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Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
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A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.
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I didn't care where my works were published.
