Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."
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Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
"When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be."
Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion Designer, Photographer
"The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time."
Donald Murray
Author, Educator
"How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here."
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"The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement."
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"Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters"
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"Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site."
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"A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long."
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"Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park."
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"Amusement to an observing mind is study."
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"A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind."
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"It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit."
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"Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years."
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"Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself"
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"In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known."
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"Life would be tolerable but for its amusements."
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"To find recreation in amusement is not happiness."
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"Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave"
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"Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are."
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"Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds."
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"I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice."
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"Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life."
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"The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit."
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"Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it."
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