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• In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

  Janet Flanner

  Beautiful, Art, Bread

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• Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

  George Lois

  Mind, Custodians, Nervous

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• If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Perfect, Pieces, Rooms

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• Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Past

  "InfoWorld" Magazine, October 2001.

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• I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.

  Tim Cook

  Want

  "Tim Cook On Facebook, The iPad, And Just About Everything Else". Interview with Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. May 29, 2012.

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• The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

  Fernand Leger

  Beautiful, Wall, White

  Carolyn Lanchner, Fernand Léger, Jodi Hauptman, Matthew Affron (1998). “Fernand Léger: [Exposición] The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 15-May 12, 1998”, p.124, The Museum of Modern Art

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• I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Children, Ambition

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• "Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Special

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4140, Delphi Classics

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• There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something to ponder as you watch the famous cantina scene in Star Wars. ... Does this make sense, given the overwhelmingly likely situation that galactic civilizations differ in their level of evolutionary development by thousands or millions of years? Would you share drinks with a trilobite, an ourang-outang, or a saber-toothed tiger? Or would you just arrange to have a few specimens stuffed and carted off to the local museum?

  Seth Shostak

  Stars, War, Science

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• Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Gun

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• Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Dna, Library, Culture

  Vartan Gregorian (2008). “The Road to Home: My Life and Times”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Promise

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• Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Art, Growing Up, Inspiration

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

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• Art should be created for life, not for the museum

  Jean Nouvel

  Life, Art, Creating

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• I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]

  Rick Riordan

  Yelling, Sound, Facts

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Night, London

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Doe, Poverty, Civilized Society

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2012

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• Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon car that's like a bug? Um huh, you know what I'm talking about. That's how big the heart of a blue whale is. I know it's not possible, but if that heart was in me, could I love more?...I would like to.

  Sapphire

  Heart, Blue, Talking

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.

  David Nicholls

  Mistake, School, Thinking

  David Nicholls (2008). “Starter for Ten: A Novel”, p.42, Villard

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• I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Men, Cities

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• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, School, Skills

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Art, Cathedrals, Art Is

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• Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

  Donald McCaig

  Dog, Blood, Training

  Donald McCaig (2014). “Nop's Trials: A Novel”, p.136, Open Road Media

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• Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

  Derek Landy

  Cities, Dublin, Quiet

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• There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.

  Michael Chabon

  Canvas, Bedroom, Made

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.247, Random House

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