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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

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At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces. ↗

— Domenico Dolce

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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

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But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#biology #doing #engineering #fields #following

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#engineering #i #know #technology

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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