Quotes 961 till 980 of 1460.
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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
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That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
White Noise (2011) 276 -
The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
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The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
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The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
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The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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