Famous Quotes: Art

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
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Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
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It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
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Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
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Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
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Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
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I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
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We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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