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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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• 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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• You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Buddhism, White

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• In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.

  Stuart Dybek

  Block, Writing, Clay

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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• Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

  Horace

  Leader, Soul, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 524-25, Carmina, IV. 8, 1922.

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• It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

  Ken Livingstone

  Art, People, Criticism

  "Art attack - mayor and sculptor in war of words over Mandela statue", www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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• Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Heart, Eye

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• He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

  Diogenes

  Practice, Alms

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Kings, Regret, Broken

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.250, 1982.

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• The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Liberty, Pedestal

  Letter to General Thaddeus Kosciusko, February 26, 1810.

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• Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Forever, Mind

  The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

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• The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

  Lew Wallace

  Inscriptions, Protest, After Death

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople”, p.454, e-artnow

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• Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Men, Melting

  Terry Pratchett (2013). “Jingo: Stage Adaptation”, p.108, A&C Black

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• He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

  John Connolly

  Fear, Broken, Beast

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is further away from another, but also because of the beautiful statues of Moai that are there. To do a beautiful walk there, I would have to involve the Moai, and the Rapa Nui people who live on the island.

  Philippe Petit

  Beautiful, Easter, Islands

  Source: collider.com

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• For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to generations of immigrants. One of these immigrants was a poet-writer named Ameen Rihani. Gazing at her lamp held high, he wondered whether her sister might be erected in the lands of his Arab forefathers. Here is how he put it: "When will you turn your face toward the East, oh Liberty?"

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Land, America

  Address in Abu Dhabi on Freedom and Extremism in the Middle East, delivered 13 January 2008, Emirates Palace Hotel, United Arab Emirates

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• I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cities, Parks, Committees

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• The view... from my apartment... was the World Trade Center... and now it's gone, they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity, and strength, and labor, and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what? You know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that!

  Jon Stewart

  Views, Imagination, Liberty

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• To see my statue unveiled alongside Borje Salming, the player I grew up idolizing in Sweden, will be very special for both my family and me.

  Mats Sundin

  Player, Special, Sweden

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• When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kgb, Russia, Eight

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• It's a beautiful city, and the waterfront area is fantastic. I haven't had time to visit the theatre, but I find it remarkable that Toronto has the third-largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, after New York and London. I once noticed a fellow sitting on a bench, then I realized it was a statue of Glenn Gould. It's very realistic.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and the eyes of the 19-foot statue that gaze directly into the White House, a reminder to any of us who might occupy that mansion of the quality of mind and generosity of heart that once abided there and has been so rarely seen there again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Eye, Heart, White

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

  Rita Hayworth

  Directors, Hollywood, Needs

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

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• Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.

  Eddy Arnold

  Song, Hands, People

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