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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#effect #logic #model #poor

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#dictator #i #model #myself #really

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families. ↗

— Wes Borland

#drain #families #family #family values #gone

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#emulate #glamour #going #just #lately

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#finds #good #himself #ill #man

There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#challenge #challenges #choose #everything #family

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose. ↗

— Arvid Carlsson

#differently #dose #even #fixed #individuals

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. ↗

— Robert Casey

#feature #however #life #might #modern

A good model can advance fashion by ten years. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#fashion #good #model #ten #years