Form Quotes
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Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.
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Gossip is the worst form of judging.
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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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Printing money is merely taxation in another form.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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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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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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'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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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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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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It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
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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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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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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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We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.
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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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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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I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.
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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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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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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
