Form Quotes
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Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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.
Bette Midler
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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.
Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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.
Maajid Nawaz
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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.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
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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.
William Labov
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
Billy Joel
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I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
Morarji Desai
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
L Peter Deutsch
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More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?
Thomas Sowell
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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.
Francis Chan
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Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.
Tommy Bolin
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The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?
Christina Aguilera
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Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer.
Carl Orff
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
Ajahn Chah
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Vision is an intelligent form of thought
Andreas Gursky
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
Garry Winogrand
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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
William Winwood Reade
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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
Steve Earle
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Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
Mark Steyn
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Painting is another form of thinking.
Gerhard Richter
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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
T. H. White
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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.
Wilhelm Ostwald