Form Quotes
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Gossip is the worst form of judging.
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I've been working in theater, really, since about 1965. I started working with the Mabou Mines about then, and in a way I've always worked in the theater, but it's never been a main part of my work. And it wasn't until Einstein that I kind of shifted into high gear with theater, working with Bob, with Bob Wilson. And since then I find it a very attractive form to work in. It's just an extension of my work.
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I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.
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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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All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
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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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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
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Time and space are only forms of thought.
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My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.
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I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
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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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Printing money is merely taxation in another form.
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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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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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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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Energy cannot be destroyed. It just takes on different forms.
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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 comedy is the hardest art form there is.
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I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.
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I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.
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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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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.
