Form Quotes
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Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
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One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
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Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
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Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!
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The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.
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I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition.
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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
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Printing money is merely taxation in another form.
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'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
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They should also consider owning their property as tenants-in-common, rather than jointly, and they could also think about leaving their property in some form of trust.
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Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.
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Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
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Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.
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I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.
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It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.