Quotes 181 till 200 of 206.
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We're dealing with whether we're going to accept the idea of socialism and Marxism and atheism. Or go back to the American way, Judeo-Christian values, which meritocracy is part of it. The idea that content and character and talent are colorblind.
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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of - is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
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What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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When Christ says, ‘Forgive your enemies,’ it is not for the sake of the enemy, but for one’s own sake that he says so, and because love is more beautiful than hate.
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When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That's what I aim to do in Rio - my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can't get too complacent. I can't relax; I can't be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.
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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.
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When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.
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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
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Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
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Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
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