I should like to be famous and unknown. - Edgar Degas - Quotesmemo.com

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Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.

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Edgar Degas

I should like to be famous and unknown.

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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

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