#statement

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. ↗

— John Corigliano

#destroy #everything #french #french revolution #modernist

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#constant #effect #enlightenment #facts #freedom

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy. ↗

— Jim Davis

#contribution #english #understatement

People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#bra #fashion #fashion statement #heart #i

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#bank #best #come #families #forget

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made. ↗

— Jorja Fox

#ever #i #i think #love #made

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words. ↗

— Kenny G

#being #emotion #even #feel #great

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#every #feel #i #like #make

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement. ↗

— Ang Lee

#movie #provocation #really #statement

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#comedian #comedy #father #figure #funny