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I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech… — Jonathan Ive
Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your… — Curtis Jackson
I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a… — Chris Hardwick
The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but… — Paul Strand
Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed… — Bob Torres
But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able… — Luke Kirby
Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of… — Edward Felten
The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of… — B. H. Liddell Hart
For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the… — Ryan Adams
What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you… — Ryan Adams
I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you… — Kit Harington
The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking… — William J. Clinton
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. — Rabindranath Tagore
Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds. — Will Durant
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought… — William James
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of… — Ambrose Bierce
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails… — Dalai Lama
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of… — John Ruskin
And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot… — Terry Pratchett
I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to… — Vincent Van Gogh
The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression. — Lewis Mumford
Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear… — Bruce Willis
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and… — Dogen
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas. — Damien Hirst

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