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Expression Quotes
"There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world."
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"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
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"Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices."
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"Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed."
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"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
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"I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet."
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"David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style."
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"I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage."
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"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
"The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?"
"I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!"
"What I say has no value if you do not love, enjoy, or admire it."
"I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else."
"Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me."
"Everything you do, do with great love.Make it a song of your soul,and beauty of your heart."
"Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively."
"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
"From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true."
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
"A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known."
"A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth."
"Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression."
"In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all."
"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."
"That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression."
"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
"America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?"
"Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new."
"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
"What we say has conversational value, what we do has true value for life."
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world, it just blooms."
"It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression."
"If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs."
"Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic."
"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
"I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet."
"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real."
"By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all."
"Singing your own songs is all about individual expression."
"Stars don't need words to be heard, their beauty speaks for them."
"We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects."
"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
"Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs."
"The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically."
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