Mixtures Quotes

• There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Depression, Creativity

  "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

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• My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

  Ariana Grande

  Girly, Flirty, Hippie

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• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  Ramakrishna

  Believe, World, Make Believe

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

  Northrop Frye

  Business, Advertising, Flattery

  Northrop Frye (1976). “The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

  Penelope Lively

  Writing, Fiction, May

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

  Eric Clapton

  Pain, Journey, Moments

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• I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

  Roger Moore

  Realist, Idealist

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• Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Language, Statements

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• I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

  Herbert Croly

  Optimism, Literature, Host

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

  Jeffrey Combs

  Opportunity, Acting, Instinct

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• An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

  Bridget Riley

  Artist, Conflict, Made

  Piet Mondrian, Bridget Riley, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1997). “Mondrian: nature to abstraction : from the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague”, Tate Gallery Pubn

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• You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

  Theodore Bikel

  Order, Needs, Tradition

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• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  Walter Becker

  Odds, Stuff, World

  America Online Interview, steelydanreader.com. November 17, 1994.

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• The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Civilization, Interesting, Salt

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• Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Envy, Justice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

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• He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Courage, Strong

  "The Christian Herald", Vol. 92, p. 72, 1969.

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• Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.

  Justin Bieber

  Funny, Girl, Years

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• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  Katarina Witt

  Sports, Art, Skating

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• The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Courage, Bravery

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motivational, Success, Work

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• The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

  John Locke

  Children, Blessing, Men

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• We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

  Paul Valery

  Hate, Mean, Self

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• I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.

  Sofia Coppola

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: www.chud.com

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• What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

  Georges Bernanos

  Teenage, Knowing, Bird

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.123, Da Capo Press

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• Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

  Olivia Wilde

  Believe, Essential Oils, Essentials

  Interview with Tina Turnbow, April 25, 2012.

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