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You are the most powerful cultural force in the world. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#force #most #most powerful #powerful #world

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#bladder #directly #endurance #film #human

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#accuracy #any #argument #boasting #case

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#chinese #cultural #directed #expansion #foreign

Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable. His vision of his own village may really be full of varieties; and even his vision of his own nation may have a rough resemblance to the reality. But his vision of the world is probably smaller than the world…hence he is never so inadequate as when he is universal; he is never so limited as when he generalizes. This is the fallacy in the many modern attempts at a creedless creed, at something variously described as...undenominational religion or a world faith to embrace all the faiths in the world...When a philosophy embraces everything it generally squeezes everything, and squeezes it out of shape; when it digests it necessarily assimilates. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#multiculturalism #nonsectarianism #open-mindedness #faith

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#carrying #clearing #doing #dress #duration

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#difference #every #expression #follows #fundamental

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily. ↗

— Celeste Holm

#die #encouragement #live #sadly #slowly

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#comfort #find #god #look #means

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#enlarging #expression #impressionists #innovations #led