- Nov 07, 2020
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On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.
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- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
- Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.
- Should
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020