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“In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.”

Has Beens Art Desire Natural Modern Inspired Modernism Modern Art Uncharted

“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.”

“The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.”

Has Beens Art Modern Strange Depth Fishes Mysterious Exploring Modern Art

Author:Herbert Read

“In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.”

People Way Firsts Has Beens Book Literature Harder Hardest Contracts Hardest Thing Publicists

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.”

Thinking Years Kind Has Beens Lasts Honesty Painting Proud Twenties Paint Painter Behave

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“I think the American people were saying we do not want to have further investigation. We want to close this off. They clearly made a separation between the personal conduct .. They want Congress to wrap it up, get it behind them, so we can get on to the issues that the president has been working with Congress.”

People Thinking Want Has Beens Made President Behinds Issues Congress Separation Investigation Wraps

Author:Roy Romer

“My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him.”

Knows May Has Beens America Pleasure Worst Faults Guilty Great Writers I Love Him Not Guilty

Author:Neil Gaiman

“If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.”

People Ifs Knows Has Beens Might Disease Mad Affected Cows Might Have Been Comprehensive Tracking Mad Cow Disease

Author:Charles Schumer

“In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.”

“I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating”

Feels Has Beens Done Position Trust Advertising Liberating

Author:Delia Smith

“When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.”

World Has Beens Made Running Used Race Seeing Havens Example Errors Accidents Champion Racing Weekend Nevertheless Traps Circuits Horrific World Champions Gravel Schumacher

Author:Jackie Stewart

“What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.”

Knows Long Has Beens Religion Secret Dangerous Danger Worship Developing Republic Extremism Garage Basements Mosques Secret Places Clandestine Places Of Worship

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.”

Giving Has Beens Building Protect Giving Up Definitions Surface Harm Insecurity

Author:David Whyte

“Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.”

Long Has Beens Turns Class Economic Conservative Beer Solidarity Working Class Buddy

Book:What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Source: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

“But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.”

Has Beens Stories Song Rejection Rejected

Author:Cynthia Weil

“If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Stories Use Strong Grows Wise Overcoming Stronger Disappointment Wiser Exam Makes You Stronger Success Stories Greatest Success Semester

Author:Loretta Young

“With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided”

Has Beens Care Taken Benefits Could Have Been Avoided Hindsight

Author:Eason Jordan

“It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children so I'm willing to take them further. I think it will be a good thing to keep them in the program.”

Thinking Children Littles Has Beens Willing Program Good Things My Children Montessori

Author:Connie Smith

“Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love.”

Love Has Beens Done

Author:Byron Katie

“People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.”

People Thinking Years Has Beens Couple Asking Retiring Right Time

Author:Tim Henman

“Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Week Perception Gasoline Inventory Previous Years

Author:Kyle Cooper

“I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.”

Littles Has Beens Enough Opinion Sufficient

Book:The Red Baron

Source: The Red Baron

“Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.”

Thinking Has Beens Impossible Function Observation Logical Logical Thinking

Book:Cosmic Memory

Source: Cosmic Memory

“By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.”

Humans Heart Has Beens Moral Subjects Bible Philosopher Maps Swings Human Heart

Author:Benjamin Rush

“The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.”

Writing Children Persons Has Beens Song Choices Car Bridges Makers Dreamer Planners

Author:Eleanor Holmes Norton

“A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.”

Men Has Beens Boys Never Quit Little Boys

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If you are going to call yourself a Christian - and I don't - then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight - it has put them in greater danger.”

Ifs Men Should Has Beens War Christian Young Fighting Asks Jesus Christianity Greater Dog Danger Men And Women Fundamentals Young Man Torture Drag Tolerate Leashes

Author:Ron Reagan

“If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Interest Saws Violence Stage Acceptance Exercise Universal Constitution Protected Continuing Likelihood Rallying

Author:Kofi Annan

“Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.”

People World Has Beens Reason Done Accepting Europe Ultimate Victim Reason Why Target Holocaust Palestinian Anti Semitism Abomination

Book:We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century

Source: We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century

“Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.”

Has Beens Remember Happened Holocaust Exaggeration Exaggerated Rebuke

Author:Kofi Annan

“A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.”

Men Should Wells May Has Beens Wise Wife Heard Conflict Medicine Prepared Charity Affair Formulas Slang Acts Of Charity Divulge

Author:Chanakya

“The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.”

People Trying Has Beens Earth Hardest Maintaining Down To Earth

Author:Brandy Norwood

“My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.”

Has Beens Father Grows Parent Growing Up Influence Profound Divorced

Author:Laura Linney

“The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.”

Years Has Beens States Facts Today Lasts Five Painting Painter Prize Turner Curator

Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.”

Has Beens Sometimes Seems Artist One Day Prove Register Breathless Acclaim Trailblazers

Author:Charles Saatchi

“The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.”

People Has Beens Moments Technology Our Lives Modern Filled Distraction Locked Drifting Smartphones Modern Technology

Author:Glen Hansard

“A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.”

World Has Beens Done America Evil Justice Calling Civilization Missions Our World Tolerate

Author:John Ashcroft

“I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.”

Thinking Has Beens Desperation

Author:M. H. Abrams

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”

Should Long Has Beens Cities Economy New York Should Have London Should Have Been City Life Tokyo Metropolis Cities At Night City Of London

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.”

People Has Beens Play Style Type Jazz Caught Smooth Caught Up Defining Acid Smooth Jazz

Author:Roy Ayers

“I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Fields Bird Something New

Author:Steve Madden

“It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.”

Has Beens Economy Particular Treats Scholar Indignation Marxist

Book:The Essential Galbraith

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.”

Has Beens Art Reality Art Is Objectives Abstract Abandoned Realism Principal Abstract Art

Book:Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs

Source: Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs

“Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.”

Has Beens Country Misery Saved Candidates Opposition

Author:Duff Green

“Had I found the back of the net it would have been a double satisfaction but I've scored many goals and the important thing was for me to play well.”

Wells Has Beens Important Play Found Goal Important Things Satisfaction

Author:Alessandro Del Piero

“This is tremendous. The labels have been saying all along that they can't compete with free, but there is a way to compete with free: high value content that's virus- free and gives people the chance to be first in line to buy expensive concert tickets. This is like loyalty clubs at the supermarkets.”

People Way Giving Firsts Has Beens Values Lines Chance Clubs Loyalty Labels Expensive Concerts Tickets Viruses Supermarkets

Author:Jonathan Potter

“Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.”

Years Believe May Has Beens Movement Involved Republican Bills Campaigns Finance Reform Campaign Finance Campaign Finance Reform Reform Movements

Author:Robert Torricelli

“Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.”

Has Beens Made War Names Interest Progress Materials Civilization Sacred Trade Connected

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper disposal of shot, shells and things.”

Giving Should Has Beens Answers Issues Shots Raised Species Environmental Noise Shells Assessment Migration Endangered Species

Author:Steven Hall

“Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.”

Thinking Way Giving Feels Writing Trying Mind Heart Has Beens Ideas Reality Able Language Ties Receiving Divorced Contradictory

Author:Eduardo Galeano

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