Martin Filler Quotes

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 17, 1948

Topics

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It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

Jim Sensenbrenner

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Sex is a slotmachine.

John Dos Passos

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You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

Andrew Niccol

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I was around a lot of gospel as a kid.

John Legend

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Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.

Matt Haig

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I like talking about comic book process, and one of the things is that I have plans going ahead for years, and the plans constantly get thrown away and shifted. There's a difference between planning and what actually happens in life, and comics have a life of their own.

Ann Nocenti

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It's hard to brief in the Oval. You know, you can't - no visual aids, hard to roll out something in front of somebody.

Michael Hayden

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I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

Michael Chiklis

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It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.

Tony Bennett

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I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Roberta Flack

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We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more 'bottom line' for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.

Chris Gibson

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To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.

Christopher Reeve

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