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I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.


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If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
Nicholas D. Kristof
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.


Val Kilmer
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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Mark Rothko
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I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.


James Polshek
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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.


Linda Ronstadt
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But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.


Daniel H. Hill
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All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.
Vinoba Bhave
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
Mark Cuban
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
D. H. Lawrence
I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.
Austin Nichols
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken
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I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.
Rodney King
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
Andrew Young
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I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
Lee Konitz
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.


Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.


Robert South
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.


Pablo Picasso
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Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?
Asghar Farhadi
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I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.
Wylie Dufresne
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