Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer
Recitation: by Male by Female
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy
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I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.
John Muir
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My job, live television, broadcasting, there's mania involved in there, too, but it's the good stuff.
Mauro Ranallo
GoodLiveJobTelevisionStuffToo
When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.
Jeff Koons
WorkYouArtistWayFinishAudience
When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known.
Ruth Bernhard
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I'm not looking to be a superstar. I just want to be in a room with good people who are similar to me and are at least open to things that I have to say.
Jason Isbell
GoodPeopleMeLookingGood People
You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
Johnny Vegas
HopePeopleSayingYouAlwaysHalf
The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?
Christen Press
LifeAmericanSpeedYouLookKnow
I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever cook out of cookbooks. I like cookbooks for the commentary or the pictures or the history.
Christina Tosi
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
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It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.
Philip Kaufman
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Sometimes the game does not go for you, no matter how much you try, but I do what I can and leave other people to their opinions on how I played.
Philippe Coutinho
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