When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
Evelyn Waugh
Recitation: by Male by Female
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.
Jerry Saltz
TimeCultureMoneyAmericanAmerica
I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.'
Jess Walter
RedTreesFallLateLastJust
We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.
Johan Huizinga
CharacterTogetherWorldPossibleUp
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Robert Louis Stevenson
SuicideYouNothingLeftEvenOnce
We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.
Matthew Walker
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I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
Jeanne Moreau
WomenYoungWantNeverOutAnything
The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.
Spencer Abraham
GreatStrongElectricityGrowingToo
I have pretty thick eyebrows, so I'm really grateful to Brooke Shields, the first time around, and now Cara Delevingne for making that such a thing. For those of us who were born that way, it's kind of nice.
Sophia Bush
TimeGratefulBornNiceKindWay
The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
Tom Ford
LeaderWorldLostMoralUsed
The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.
Joseph P. Bradley
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
Brian Eno
MusicResearchSomeoneYouDone
For the life of me, I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite, in those holes and detonate that dynamite and seal that - seal that leak. And seal it permanently.
Phil Gingrey
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