Form Quotes
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Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.
Jim Gaffigan
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Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs...
Edgar Allan Poe
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Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
Asger Jorn
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Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.
Jean Chretien
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The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.
Herbert Spencer
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
William James
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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
George Bernard Shaw
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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso
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I had been out of form during the last two weeks and I wanted to show the coaching staff I was back to my best. We didn't want the wooden spoon either.
Amy Williams
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Down cycles are not fun. But they form the basis for enormous future profitability
Stephen A. Schwarzman
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I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
Simon Toyne
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I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
Judy Holliday
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Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.
Cathy Davidson
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So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.
Nelson Shanks
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Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.
Paul Goldberger
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It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.
Arthur Dove
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Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
Anna Godbersen
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Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.
Nita Ambani
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Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.
Jim Gaffigan
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The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
Stanley Kubrick
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Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.
Paul Auster
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Open your mind to every form of beauty
Constance Spry