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I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Art, Interested

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Edward Gibbon

Government, Present, Seems

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Graham Greene

Good, Brain, Two

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Health, Important

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Lichtenstein

Art, Plain, Transform

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna

God, May, Through

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
Herbert Spencer

Government, Old, Off

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
Spike Lee

Money, Art, Big

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Death, Goal

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Christopher Lasch

Age, Character, Express

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell

Travel, Rewarding

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Vernon Howard

Why, Behavior, Existence

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Funny, Art, Literature

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
Jacqueline Bisset

Love, Beauty, Good

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
John Foster Dulles

Order, Capacity, Aggression

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
Johan Huizinga

Attitude, Culture, Emotions

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
Tony Campolo

Political, Reason, Means

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
Karen Armstrong

Religion, Art, Sex

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Tryon Edwards

Strength, May, Through

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
Wole Soyinka

Nature, Art, Why

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Life, Religion, Able

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
John le Carre

Age, Democracy, Find

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.
Travis Barker

Places, Period, Traveling

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.
James Buchan

Great, Country, Free

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.
James Buchan

Technology, Thought, Rest

Beauty can come in strange forms.
James Dyson

Beauty, Strange

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.
David Lloyd

Bad, Idea, Story

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
Johannes Brahms

God, Mind, Ideas

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.
Richard Roeper

Playing, Since, Hold

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
Jane Pauley

Depression, May, Questions

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