"Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree."

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Source : Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”

Charles James Fox

#War Quotes #Wish Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really involved with the beginning stages of it. Art is something that I haven't really put out to the public. There's a couple pictures on MySpace, but I haven't done a gallery opening or anything like that. Art is very personal to me. I haven't really shared it with too many people.”
“I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.”
“When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?”
“I do not love the money. What I do love is the getting of it ... What other interest can you suggest to me? I do not read. I do not take part in politics. What can I do?”
“I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.”
“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”
“Violence and fraud can create no right.”
“No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.”

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