Sake Quotes
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I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
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The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.
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Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
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If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
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I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.
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When I was younger I could never get up in the morning, I always found it so difficult. If I had an appointment, I had no problem, but just getting up early for the sake of it was so hard, I just loved my bed (and still do!).
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A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
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Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare.
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It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong. You should not talk about Indian people," and the Indian people are over in the audience like, "I thought that joke was hilarious." That is so weird. Then why are you getting mad? You're burning unnecessary calories. You're getting made for the sake of getting mad. I don't understand it.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!
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...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
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We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.
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Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.
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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
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The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?
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Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
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I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
