Read Quotes
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Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Michael Foot
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I don’t want [my paintings’ subject matter] to be seen as a just a button. So they have to be read as not a button or a flower but something abstracted from which you can derive meaning.
Donald Sultan
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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
Adam Zagajewski
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I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.
TONY Wilson Musician
Hot Chocolate
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If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.
Bocafloja
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I'm not going to read Morgan McMichaels, life already has.
BeBe Zahara Benet
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People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?
Eugene Ionesco
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My parents had the hardest time getting me to read. But I picked up the Muhammad Ali book and it was pretty cool. He was a guy that lived a pretty exciting life and, with the ups and downs and things he dealt with, I think it’s a pretty special story.
Brendan Gallagher
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What you read when you don't have to...
Oscar Wilde
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If…if I had his education, Kantaylis thought, surprised at the sudden intensity of the desire. If I could I’d study this business, read up on it, read all there is to be read about it.
Anton Myrer
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Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.
William Blake
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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Charles Dickens