"If you were in a burning house and……" — Diane Frolov
"If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life."
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Diane Frolov
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11 Quotes by Diane Frolov
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I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I…
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As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism,…
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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close…
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Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that.…
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Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
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People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and…
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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled…
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Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is…
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Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon,…
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
— Michele Bachmann
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
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