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“I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.”

Trying Believe Art Helping I Believe Morality Concern Theater Philosophical Statements Psychological Underdog

Author:Jeff Koons

“The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.”

People Ifs Want Has Beens Government Past Laughing Century China Statements Chinese Want Me Tibet Chinese Government

Author:Dalai Lama

“'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.”

Running Impossible Band Mere Statements Stylist Personal Statement

Author:Jon Landau

“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”

Thinking World Writing States Novel Modern Statements Innocent Contentment Passages Perpetual Drunkenness Rite Good Humor Rite Of Passage Scanning Edginess

Author:J. G. Ballard

“I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.”

Way Political Order Social Optimism Machines Driven Statements Suspects Aesthetic Exclusive Social Order Populist Political Change Rolls Royce

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.”

Artist Statements

Author:Annie Lennox

“I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.”

Men Looks Wanted Causes Interest Interesting Powerful Media Equal Wave Statements Shock Very Interesting Ripple Ambiguous

Author:Annie Lennox

“Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.”

Enough Individual Pleasure Moral Statements Justification Sovereignty

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.”

Ifs Believe Helping Home Fans Band Speech Statements Journalist Freedom Of Speech

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.”

Men Heart Pain Joy Song Social Struggle Broken Universal Absolutes Statements Affirmation Elegance Blues Music

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.”

Trying Humans Mean Running Values Culture Identity Fundamentals Embrace Core Statements African American American Culture Always Trying Core Values Ethnic Identity African American Culture

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.”

Mind Results Careful Statements Casualties Hardened

Author:George C. Marshall

“You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.”

Writing May Philosophy Life Is Literature Statements Contradiction Contradictory Such Is Life

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.”

Ideas Pieces Objects Statements Intrigued Inanimate Objects

Author:Mike Mills

“Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.”

Progress Brilliant Statements Nihilism Outrage

Author:Alan Moore

“All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.”

Kind Action Law Certain Moral Effects Statements Moral Law

Author:George Edward Moore

“And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.”

Way Want Enough Political Used Powerful Humour Statements Most Powerful Realising

Author:Michael Moore

“Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.”

Knows Way Important Sometimes Felt Involved Vote Campaigns Statements

Author:Michael Moore

“A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'”

People Ifs Knows Littles Whole Jobs Generations Streets Taxes Appreciate Statements Hey Working It Weed Know Me Embarrassing Up To You Accountants Great Job Snl

Author:Kevin Nealon

“In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.”

People Made Choices Statements Fantastic Romney

Author:Bob Beauprez

“I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.”

Want Statements

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.”

Fine Doctors Dating Statements Breasts Charlie Implants Breast Implants

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.”

Wells Art Whole Flower Statements Fragments

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986

“A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.”

Paid Bills Statements Going Out Clueless

Author:Suze Orman

“If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.”

Ifs Men Want Accounts Bases Statements Distress Tested Physiognomy

Book:Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings

Source: Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings

“It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.”

Facts Body Structure Statements Interpretation Theoretical Increasing Knowledge

Book:The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

Source: The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

“Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.”

Should Facts Special Elements Structure Statements Intimate Logical Emphasis Theoretical

Book:The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

Source: The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

“The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.”

Ifs Theory Everyday Statements Consideration Justify Everyday Life Implications Systematic

Book:The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

Source: The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

“To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.”

People Conditions Terrible Statements Nostalgic Prospects

Author:Neil Peart

“New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.”

Source: Jackson Pollock

“It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”

Mean Long Has Beens Art Said Artist Differences Design Paint Technique Statements Arriving

Book:Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990

Source: Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990

“In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.”

Doe Reality Speak Statements

Author:Karl Popper

“Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”

Values Literature History Depends Checks Statements Generalization

Author:Ezra Pound

“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”

Writing Values Literature Clear Criticism Fruit Critics Statements Excitement

Book:Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose: 1920-1927, C522-C599a

Source: Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose: 1920-1927, C522-C599a

“Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.”

Two Important Country States Politics United United States Percent Capacity Western Statements Japan Allies Two Countries

Author:Dan Quayle

“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”

Funny Politics Laughter Refuse Statements Opening Patriotic

Author:Ronald Reagan

“If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.”

Ifs Stills States Hands Government Politics Waiting Impact Environmental Creator Statements Federal Government Indiana Environmental Impact

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.”

Has Beens Made Important Remember Serious Statements

Author:Oliver Reed

“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.”

Two Difficult Animal Stranger Connected Glad Significant Statements Salt Pigs Urban Peasants Pork Pork Chops

Book:About Looking

Source: About Looking

“So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.”

People Knows Want Clear Taxes Let Me Raises Statements Instance

Author:Mitt Romney

“Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.”

Years Next Attention Week Picks Agree Seven Statements Next Year Airline Seven Days

Author:Andy Rooney

“I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.”

Needs Feels Writing Made Political Statements Bankers Accountants Calculating

Author:Arundhati Roy

“I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.”

Should Long Enough Hands Government Lines Negative Election Bottom Statements Bottom Line Crushed Australian Pumps

Author:Kevin Rudd

“Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.”

Helping Hands Funny Spirit Suffering Literature Wish Statements Witness Assistance Swearing Cursing World Suffering

Author:John Ruskin

“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.”

Men Wife Married Mouths Mathematics Math Experiments Statements Teeth Mathematical Fewer Examining Verify

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Of all the biennials, triennials, quadrennials, internationals, and massive group shows, Documenta, established in 1955 and held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, is seen as the most serious. A statement show.”

Years Shows Five Groups Serious Statements Germany Five Years Massive

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.”

Absolutes Statements Exception

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.”

Belief Opinion Statements Absurdity Inconsistent

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.”

Men World Strong Term Contrary Statements Despite Recognition Pious Fallacy Syndromes Strong Man

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.”

Sometimes Asks President Party Too Much Statements Affiliation President Kennedy

Book:Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It

Source: Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It

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