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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Quote by Billy Joel about poets, writers, artists, life

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about journalism, police, doubt, word, public, people, contentment

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about metaphors, help

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art, photography, infinite

Everyone always has a different perception of you.

Quote by Peter Fonda about contentment

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about film, fame, public, people, things, time

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about attitude

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about language

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.

Quote by Claude Simon about literature, memory, writing, world

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

Quote by Brad Pitt about opinion, faith, work, day, contentment, life

It is true we can cure, our memories, but not even our perceptions. These cannot be send on break.

Quote by Mag. Cornelia Klappacher about integrity