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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#intellectual #interpretation #revenge #upon

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#because #clout #doing #doing the right thing #greed

The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match. ↗

— Dixie Dean

#england #full #german #had #i

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#hotel #hotel rooms #house #i #i write

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere. ↗

— Jack Dee

#belonged #comics #common #depression #during

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared. ↗

— Paula Deen

#eat #enough #even #gracious #house

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#argument #concern #heart #human #more

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

#ancient #bodies #born #christmas #christmas eve

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. ↗

— David Duchovny

#any #i #kind #protect #self-expression

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#choice #concept #enable #familiar #hold