Quotes with tragedy-in-the-making

Quotes 81 till 100 of 666.

  • Barnett Newman Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Alice Walker Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Malcolm X Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bill Mumy Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Frank Zappa Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Ben Horowitz As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • B. D. Wong As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Campbell Brown As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Mary Lou Retton As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
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  • Brad Stone As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Banks will have to win the confidence of their customers through fair dealing, making good loans, and remaining financially healthy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Andy Warhol Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Bull fighting is not a sport. It was never supposed to be. It is a tragedy.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Angela Davis But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Carol Burnett But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Birch Bayh But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Alexander Pope But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Barney Frank But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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