Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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Resting beneath the mighty Communist regime is a civil society that remains weak. It doesn't have much courage and is not very sophisticated. As a civil society it is still in a nascent stage, and this is why we mus not expect it, in the near term, to produce a political organization that might replace the Communist regime.
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I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.
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I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.
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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.
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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
