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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it’s an excuse for a form of behavior.
– William Faulkner

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  1. In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
  2. I only write when the spirit moves me … and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi – William Faulkner
  3. The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior. – Boyd K Packer
  4. I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense. – Jael McHenry
  5. Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare. – Santosh Kalwar
  6. Europe is made of history,America of philosophy,Asia of prosperity,and Africa of opportunity. – Sami Leino
  7. In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters. – Philip Roth
  8. America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. – Oscar Wilde
  9. There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America. – Barack Obama
  10. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  11. How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
  12. You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
  13. The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty. – David Berliner
  14. Don’t use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!! – Bernard Kelvin Clive
  15. The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  16. Others behavior towards us is a reflection of our own behavior, it’s a MIRROR. – Harrish Sairaman
  17. All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. – Michael Crichton
  18. It’s not a secret that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. – Lee Johnson
  19. The worst tragedy of sin isn’t that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love. – DR Silva
  20. We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God’s moral code. – Billy Graham
  21. For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. – Michael Crichton
  22. I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane. – Craig Ferguson
  23. The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority. – Bryant McGill
  24. When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form. – Unarine Ramaru
  25. To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults. – W Somerset Maugham
  26. But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one. – Wilfred Owen
  27. Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war. – Henri Bergson
  28. The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck. – Sunday Adelaja
  29. Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they’ll be fired. – Ron Suskind
  30. If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard. – Pter Zilahy
  31. In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, ‘Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed’. – Paul Johnson
  32. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  33. All behavior is governed by fields generating forms. Information folds into and out of the holomovement as a form of computational geometry. – R A Delmonico
  34. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  35. Discrimination does not ‘make America great.’ It makes America weak. – DaShanne Stokes
  36. What’s the difference between depression and South America?If you really had to, you could conquer South America. – Doug Westberg
  37. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. – Bill Clinton
  38. This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America – Ilya Ilf
  39. Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does. – PJ ORourke
  40. But Moby-???? is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America. – Robert Stone

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