The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there. ~Marc Ostrofsky
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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