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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• The brain abhors discrepancies.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Brain
  • Abhors

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Progress

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Practice
  • Silly

• I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Happy
  • Comedy
  • Cheerful

• That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Long
  • Together
  • Band

• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Boy

• Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the 'Dune' project is all about.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Think

• When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Think
  • Dead

• One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Consider
  • Liberal
  • Leftist

• I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Think
  • Compassion
  • Tolerance

• There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Believe
  • May
  • History

• I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • Favorite
  • Directors

• I like my beat down low, and my top let backCan see me ride 24's wit a chopper in the back

  

  T.I.

• You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Live
  • Priority

• One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • May
  • Sky

• I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Challenge

• When you associate with scum, you become scum.

  

  Kathy Wakile
  • Become
  • Associate
  • Scum

• Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

• I love to be outside.

  

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