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| | I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it."
—Frederico Fellini |
| | That's the irony. But with no expectations, trusting my teammates, taking walks, doing the little things, you end up doing big things. That's the lesson for me.
—Alex Rodriguez |
| | When nature has stopped being treated as the enemy of man, when the battle of the sexes has become an unknown, when the so-called feminine traits that men share in full measure—feelings, moods, intuition—have been fully exploited, when the significance of woman's contribution to the preservation and development of human society has been recognized, when comfort is no longer mistaken for culture, when beauty has become a need again—then at last, poetry and art will automatically come into their own again, even if the veil of longing always lies upon them like an eternal promise.
—Meret Oppenheim |
| | We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
—T S Eliot |
| | Read a Lot, Forget Most of What You Read, and Be Slow-witted
—Sarah Bakewell, describing Montaigne |
| | The best way to have a good idea, is to have lots of them.
—Linus Pauling
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| | The greater one's science, the greater one's sense of mystery.
—Vladimir Nabokov |
| | The U.S. is one of only two nations on Earth in which people aged 25 to 34 have lower educational attainment than their parents.
—The Washington Monthly |
| | In trying to tell something a woman is told, shredding herself into opaque words while her voice dissolves on the walls of silence.
—Trinh T. Minh-ha |
| | Among the dead there are those that still have to be killed.
—Fernad Desnoyers |
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