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" Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name. "
Dennis Flanagan
" A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale. "
Ben Lovett
" Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure. "
Ken Goldberg
" But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person. "
Ronnie Montrose
" Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. "
E. O. Wilson
" English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background. "
David Crystal
" Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. "
Anne Sullivan
" Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them. "
Hanya Yanagihara
" Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. "
Hu Shih
" I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church. "
Kathryn Lasky
" I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything. "
Emma Watson
" I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could. "
Maurice Sendak
" I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to the rebirth of Christ... It's a word that's tied to a European concept. "
John Ralston Saul
" If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely. "
Katie McGrath
" I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art. "
Ali Smith
" I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now. "
Don Cheadle
" I'm a modern-day renaissance man. "
Winston Marshall
" I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history. "
Peter Weller
" In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. "
John Fowles
" I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including the Renaissance, which I am prepared to sound expert on. "
Jools Holland
" It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man. "
George Takei
" I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything. "
Emma Watson
" I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry. "
Herschel Walker
" I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court. "
Erich Segal
" I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. "
Steven Wright
" Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue. "
Darryl Pinckney
" Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services. "
Douglas Rushkoff
" Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera. "
David LaChapelle
" Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. "
Harold MacMillan
" Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible implosion is coming. There is no more middle ground. It is one or the other. "
Joel C. Rosenberg
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