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People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort…
— Barack Obama
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular…
— William James
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Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
— William James
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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that…
— Margaret Oliphant
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An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul…
— Mark Twain
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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
— Oscar Wilde
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Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a…
— Adela Rogers St. Johns
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For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any…
— Paul Clitheroe
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I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in…
— Graeme Murphy
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Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.
— Ninette de Valois
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I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a…
— Brian Eno
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Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought…
— Marilyn Monroe
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I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me,…
— Glenn Gould
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There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.
— Bill Frisell
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To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world…
— Brian Eno
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Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth in Jesus." Truth…
— Francis Schaeffer
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'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend…
— Mark Twain
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