Arts Quotes
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest.
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The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
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A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
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The toughest thing about performing here is, where do you go from here? Next week, I'm at the Fort Lauderdale Performing Arts Center.
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Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.
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I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.
