Robert Hewison quotes
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“Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.”
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“If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.”
-- Robert HewisonSource : Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen
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“Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.”
-- Robert HewisonSource : Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen
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“Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.”
-- Robert HewisonSource : Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen
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“Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation,”
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“[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.”
-- Robert HewisonSource : "The Global Search for Education: Art in Education" by C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.
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Source : Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."
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“My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.”
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“A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.”
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press
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Source : Source: www.etonline.com
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“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
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