Expression Quotes
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
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Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort of an external expression of an internal feeling.
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Uplift, your mind is a gift.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
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In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals fighting for their rights. She was a fighter for the right of free expression.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
