The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney
Recitation: by Male by Female
People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.
John Burnside
TruthBlessingMyselfPeopleMe
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.
Andrew Young
BetterYouPrinciplesLeaveOff
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain.
Andre Aciman
LifeFactsFeelingFeelingsNothing
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
John Updike
BookTrueWillWorstPredictThings
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.
Tony Buzan
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I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.
Tony Hancock
MyselfThinkSeeingAnythingGain
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
Lou Reed
RulesListenNeverOldYourStuff
It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.
Johnny Manziel
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We all use something - you can't drill holes with your fingers. Whether it's a knife, a needle, or a machine, we all need the help of a device.
Jonathan Ive
HelpYouKnifeNeedSomethingYour
Selena is my angel. She is my biggest inspiration. Being from San Antonio, Texas, I really feel that connection to her because she had a lot of performances and a lot of her most iconic performances in San Antonio. Back in my hometown, we love her. We all, as a community, celebrate her and adore her. We keep her memory alive.
Ally Brooke
LoveCommunityMemoryCelebrateFeel
What you learn from my life is, first of all, that anybody can be a leader. You can be a leader. I wasn't born that way - I developed it, I worked at it. And also that the grassroots can organize and take on all the powers that be and defeat them. That is the lesson.
Phyllis Schlafly
LifeLeaderLearnMy LifeYouBorn
New Jersey has decided that fewer handguns legally carried in public means less crime. It is obvious that the justifiable need requirement functions as a rationing system designed to limit the number of handguns carried in New Jersey.
Thomas Hardiman
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