A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it... view

By: Gary Kemp

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Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical... view

By: Dylan Moran

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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul... view

By: Wassily Kandinsky

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I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there... view

By: Jessica Lange

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I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!.. view

By: Sean Patrick Thomas

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Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations... view

By: Li Peng

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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it... view

By: Vladimir Nabokov

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I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery... view

By: Paul R. Ehrlich

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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts... view

By: Henry Fielding

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It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years... view

By: George Andrew Olah

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Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life... view

By: Anjelica Huston

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I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan... view

By: Chen Shui-bian

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