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• We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

  Nicolas Cage

  Stars, Complaining, Circus

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• Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

  Jerry Saltz

  Running, Art, Lying

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• Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Social, Force

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• When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Writing, Track

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Success, Character, Simple

  "Mathematical Circles Adieu". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1977.

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• Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Jetty, Natural

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• All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Government, Political

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• People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mother, Fun, Party

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• All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

  Thomas Browne

  God, Art, Nature

  Religio Medici pt. 1, sec. 16 (1643)

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• No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

  Russell Brand

  Self, Ideas, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Believe, Recovery

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, California, Needs

  "Bellow in his own words". www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2005.

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• The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Humor, Computer

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

  Alan Ball

  World, Environment, Window

  "American Ball: 'Beauty' screenwriter mining his past". Interview with Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. October 8, 1999.

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• From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

  Tom Ford

  Inspirational, Important, Stuff

  "Excellence: Inspiration for Achieving Your Personal Best". Book by J.Pincott, 2010.

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• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  Andre Gide

  Bores You, Annoyed, Literature

  The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

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• To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

  Frank Darabont

  Arbitrary, Film, Length

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• Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Bears

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• If I sound like I'm enjoying myself, it's not artificial. It's real.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Sound, Enjoy

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• Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Taken, Differences, Want

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• In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian means. The only equality they posit and will strive their utmost to defend is the equality of opportunity. This necessitates the maximum amount of freedom for each individual. This will not necessarily result in equality of incomes or wealth but will result in returns proportionate to service rendered.

  Laurance Labadie

  Mean, Opportunity, Income

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• Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.

  Wayne Muller

  Responsibility, Accomplishment, Needs

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• When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.

  Wayne Muller

  Strong, Stars, War

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• Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

  Godfried Danneels

  Islands, Civilization, Doubt

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• I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.

  Lindy West

  Broken Heart, Believe, Bad Relationship

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