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I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful. ↗

— Otto Dix

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From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable. ↗

— Jim Doyle

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Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ↗

— Max Eastman

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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish. ↗

— Brian Eno

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We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

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I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

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I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

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I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that. ↗

— Glenn Ford

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