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“I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.”
Source : "Degas: An Intimate Portrait (Technical Details)". Book by Ambroise Vollard (1927) translated by Randolph T. Weaver (p. 70), 1986.
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“... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.”
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“The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.”
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“America the brave Still fears what we don't know”
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“This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.”
Source : Stephen Batchelor (2010). “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”, p.74, Spiegel & Grau
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“Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no doubt that...in its biological application, at any rate, this statement is one of the most stupendous falsehoods ever uttered by man through his misbegotten gift of articulate speech.”
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“I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.”
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“A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com