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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."

Barry Gibb, English Musician

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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

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"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

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"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."

Edward Sapir, American Scientist

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"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about."

John Tesh, American Musician

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"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter."

Aaron Eckhart, American Actor

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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."

"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."

"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."

"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."

"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."

"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about."

"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."

"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

"I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter."

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