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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day… — Jean Baudrillard
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain… — Don DeLillo
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed… — Robert Bresson
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real… — James A. Baldwin
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true… — Annie Dillard
I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit… — Gordon Cooper
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view,… — Richard Bach
Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. — Richard Schiff
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a… — James Madison
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies… — Sheryl Crow
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is… — Janis Ian
You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time… — Phil Collins
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to… — Laura Nyro
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names… — Robbie Robertson
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either… — Joseph Story
If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain… — Janet Morris
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work… — Thomas Carlyle
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. — Bertrand Russell
[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its… — Benjamin Rush

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