“ The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
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“ The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport. ”
- Bill Rodgers- Copy
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“ I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life. ”
- Clive Barker- Copy
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“ You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team. Your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper. ”
- Jane Goodsell- Copy
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“ Truly, man is a spectacularly vain, diverse, and fluctuating subject. It is hard to establish a specific and uniform judgment on him. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. ”
- Elsa Schiaparelli- Copy
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“ Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Healthy fear evokes fully awakened attention and calm point in the presence of realities we cannot control. It cautions us before we dive into ocean breakers, safeguards us on narrow mountain paths with spectacular views, and makes us respectful when approaching the sacred mystery of any person… ”
- Robert C. Morris- Copy
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“ I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business. ”
- Stanley Kubrick- Copy
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“ We are a sad lot, the cell biologists. Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex. ”
- Lorraine Lee Cudmore- Copy
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“ Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves. ”
- Gandhi- Copy
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“ Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes — love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself — and render them fully human… ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ American "energy" is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness… ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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