Quotes 161 till 180 of 1776.
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Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information - hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
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Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
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Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
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As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.
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As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
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As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
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As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
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As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
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As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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