#sf

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. ↗

— Ingmar Bergman

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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#already #art #begun #completion #informs

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#happens #involved #next #person #repeat

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#aggressive #important #investigative #mob #powerful

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. ↗

— Max Bill

#art #basis #being #borrowing #call

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. ↗

— George Boole

#also #appear #beautiful #being #being beautiful

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#effects #ideological #more #most #need

The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

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When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again. ↗

— Paula Cole

#success #successful #want #you

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#love #sometimes #stressful #what you love #you