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I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.
As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.
There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.
The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.
Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.
I'm a Baha'i; we really believe in Baha'i faith that our work has to be our service, especially in the arts.
I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.
When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
I'm doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It's my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I am.
In mixed martial arts, if you get kicked in the face, it's your job not to show any expression to your opponent.
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
I had studied at the NYU School of the Arts under Lloyd Richards, who also worked with the Negro Ensemble Company.
Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.
In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
I grew up learning martial arts in Korea; my dad actually brought in an Olympic instructor to teach me as a teenager.
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life.
Actually, I have never been a great fan of martial arts competitions. Not even when I was training martial arts myself.
I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.
I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.
With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett.
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I'd finally found my place in life.
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
I have always had a heavy built and have been into all sorts of physical activities like weight training and martial arts.