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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.


Henry Adams
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.


Ralph Richardson
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
Adam Michnik
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
David Hilbert
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There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Will Self
Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.
Eugene Ionesco
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Huston Smith
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.


Hunter S. Thompson
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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.


August Wilson
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I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.


Richard Avedon
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
Joe Wright
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.


Andre Gide
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.


Tatyana Tolstaya
My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
Fanny Howe
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Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.


Kim Alexis
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.


Ray Bradbury
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Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.


John Chamberlain
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.


Paul Valery