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• mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues

  e. e. cummings

  Girl, Party, Men

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Son, Italian, Winning

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• Then something occurred to me. "Get closer," I told Blackjack. He whinnied in protest. "Just within shouting distance," I said. "I need to talk to the statue." Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, Blackjack said

  Rick Riordan

  Distance, Boss, Needs

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.182, Penguin UK

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• If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

  Juan Enriquez

  Men, Different, Green

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

  Frank Luntz

  Powerful, America, Liberty

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• If they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first.

  Roy Moore

  Scary, Want, Firsts

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• I went to visit Frank Capra, one of my idols, and did a kind of Judd Apatow interview with him. I said, "I'd like the Statue of Liberty to disappear, but I want to do it as a lesson in freedom, how valuable freedom is and what the world would be like without liberty." And Frank Capra looked at me and said, "David, I love your idea, but here's what you're going to do. You're going to try and it's not going to work; it's not going to disappear." And I said, "Mr. Capra, I can't do that."

  David Copperfield

  Love You, Ideas, Idols

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It's just fake gold and plastic... We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board. Better yet, when's the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards?

  Nick Cannon

  Awards, Fake, Gold

  "Nick Cannon Shares Spoken Word Poem About Oscars Controversy". www.billboard.com. January 24, 2016.

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• And it's not just black people. That's the other thing about this issue, it's conflated with just black and white and it's not that at all. It's diversity, it's something that looks more like the landscape of the country. And it's not about then we get the statues we deserve, it's not that. It's that everyone should be able to participate in this silly contest, which is how I feel about it.

  Don Cheadle

  Country, Silly, Black And White

  "We talked to Don Cheadle about his new Miles Davis movie, biopics, and why he's not boycotting the Oscars". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. January 25, 2016.

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• You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with inferior metal; yours are solid, and are anchored to a depth of three feet. Let the American tanks come! Their gears will strip and their engines whine in defeat as they attempt to pull down your statues!

  James Lileks

  Feet, Stronger, Tanks

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• I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

  Hilarie Burton

  Couple, Flower, Cat

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hilarie Burton". Interview with Laura Lane, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.

  Ezra Levant

  Idols, Wind, Feet

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• Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

  Thomas Friedman

  Liberty, Guantanamo Bay, Statue Of Liberty

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• Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Identity, Sides, Stereotype

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.

  Richard Price

  New York, Book, Character

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• I feel like I'm already a winner. I've made so many dreams come true. I'm here. Whether you walk away with a statue [ Emmy]or not, you shouldn't make it about it that necessarily. Everyone who's here in this house tonight is a winner.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Dream, House, Tonight

  "Taraji P. Henson on Possibly Making Emmys History: 'I Don't Want to Make It About a Material Thing'". Interview with Nancy O'Dell, www.etonline.com. September 20, 2015.

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• I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.

  Jack Nicholson

  Feet, Bird, Tree

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I was quite nauseous every day at school - I had some real stomach problems. The thing that saved me was sitting in church and trying to get into these statues and windows and colors. Truly, it transported me. And I can see it now in my own work - my pictures have kind of that look.

  Mary GrandPre

  Real, School, Color

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Expression, Sight

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• Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Years, Museums

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

  William James

  Block, Thoughtful, Thinking

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.288, Courier Corporation

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• [I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Buddhist, Ideas, Life And Death

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

  Denis Diderot

  Beautiful, Character, Eye

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• While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff!

  Alexander Weinstein

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Teacher

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as indecent ... The text is one of the components of an artistic work, albeit an extremely important component ... But the artistic effect as a whole arises from comparisons of the text with a complex set of ontological and ideological esthetic ideas.

  Yuri Lotman

  Ideas, Ties, Museums

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