Kenneth Clark Quotes
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.
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Oran Hesterman is a brilliant philanthropist. He had so many progressive ideas about shifting the way that money is given out. He wanted to focus on the creation of healthy, community-based food systems in historically excluded communities and now an advocate, an ally, and obviously lots of capital won't be able to go into these communities no
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The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
