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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which…
— Stephen Bayley
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Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
— Roger Williams
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At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to…
— Jacques Derrida
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We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to…
— Michael J. Gelb
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I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, ..…
— Emma Thompson
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Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort…
— Terry Goodkind
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About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it`s sort of both.…
— Alex Kingston
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External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.
— Jaron Lanier
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I really don't care about the response to my hair this is just how my hair is. I don't take care of it, or comb…
— Steve Nash
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If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser.…
— Loretta Young
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I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like…
— Jenny Saville
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The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean…
— Keren Ann
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Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.
— Frederick Sommer
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All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to…
— John Bertram Phillips
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Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out,…
— Joan D. Chittister
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I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for…
— Andrew McMahon
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That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
— Paula Rego
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To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
— Francesco Clemente
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Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
— Robert Genn
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Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear…
— Sigfried Giedion
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I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're…
— Orson Welles
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When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it…
— David Letterman
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Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long…
— John Muir
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I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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