Quotes 61 till 80 of 152.
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It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
(2014) -
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
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Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.
Radio Interview, May 15 2005 [29] -
Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
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Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
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Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
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My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
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My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) -
My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
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Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
American Pastoral (1997) -
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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