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• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

  Umberto Eco

  Responsibility, Political, Cartoon

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  Zac Efron

  Singing, Musical, Training

  "All New Q&A with Zac Efron". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

  Eminem

  Mistake, Want, Shows

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• The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

  Brian Eno

  Past, Impressed, Focused

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• I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

  Brian Eno

  Being Happy, Mean, Thinking

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Brave New World, America

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• This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

  Arthur Erickson

  Culture, World, Materialism

  "Atheists, Agnostics, Progressive Minds: Busy Bacteria on A Speck of Dust". Book by John D. Cannon, September 29, 2010.

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• The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

  Arthur Erickson

  Names, Historical, Events

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• Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

  Arthur Erickson

  Looks, Advantage, Modernism

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

  Arthur Erickson

  Japan, Europe, Crafts

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

  Arthur Erickson

  Men, Self, Design

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

  Arthur Erickson

  America, Management, Materialism

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• Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

  Arthur Erickson

  Gone, Modernism, Constraints

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dream, California, Design

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

  Arthur Erickson

  Other Cultures, Incapacity, Term

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• Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Attitude, Order, Gdp

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• Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

  Arthur Erickson

  Technology, Civilization, Space

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

  Arthur Erickson

  High Heels, Typical, Achilles

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...

  Arthur Erickson

  Order, Forgotten, Unchangeable

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

  Arthur Erickson

  Japan, Europe, Architecture

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

  Arthur Erickson

  Culture, Exploitation, Humans

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

  Arthur Erickson

  Japan, Littles, Ancient

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

  Arthur Erickson

  Deeds Done, Action, Results

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Energy, Building

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

  Arthur Erickson

  America, Goal, Lines

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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