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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
I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were… — Patti Davis
The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their… — Ari Fleischer
The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a… — Barbara Kruger
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the… — Steven Pressfield
If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the… — Hans Haacke
The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over,… — Elizabeth Fishel
I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination. — Anna Deavere Smith
In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative… — David Cameron
At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law &… — Chris Noth
Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of… — Steven Hall
The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the… — Irene Khan
To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just -- to… — Jon Schmidt
This is a unique deposit not just in terms of reserves, but also in terms of extraction techniques. Therefore there're grounds to talk about [applying]… — Viktor Khristenko
We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive… — Richard Wiseman
While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific… — Eric Maisel
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in… — Cornelia Parker
Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency. — Peter Schmidt
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal… — Jean Helion
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem… — Walter Darby Bannard
I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well… — Richard Diebenkorn
Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable. — Lawren Harris
The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it… — Wayne Thiebaud
We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast… — Rachel Carson

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