Justin Davidson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.
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Playing music well is difficult, yet the world has an abundance of fine performers. Explaining a little about music is easier, yet few do it well. Those who can do both supremely form a tiny club, whose honorary chairman is the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
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We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement.
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No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.
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Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.
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No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
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There's a fire starting in my heart
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I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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