Quotes 321 till 340 of 491.
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The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
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The basis of effective government if public confidence.
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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
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The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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The extreme limit of wisdom -that's what the public calls madness.
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
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The first mistake in public business is going into it.
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The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
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The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
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The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
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