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Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

Ampersand: Sand you won't find at a beach - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. - Unknown

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Dancing is like bank robbery - it takes split second timing. - Twyla Tharp

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred N Whitehead

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building. - Kin Hubbard

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. - Steve Martin

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi