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The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it. -- Marcel Duchamp
I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts. -- Bobby Fischer
When I did 'The Tudors,' there was massive information available and a ready-made market. -- Michael Hirst
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. -- John Dewey
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit. -- Sandra Lee
Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. -- Leslie Fiedler
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. -- Marcel Duchamp
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think. -- Jane Rule
When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me. -- Sadie Jones
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'ready-mades aided' and also works of assemblage. -- Marcel Duchamp
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. -- Jerry Saltz
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. -- Carlos Fuentes
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. -- Walter Mosley
When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn't have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything. -- Marcel Duchamp
Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings. -- Reza Aslan
Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's. -- Jacob Bronowski
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"? -- Winston Churchill
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -- Dalai Lama XIV
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -- Dalai Lama XIV
Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path -- Rajneesh
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. -- Charles Bukowski
Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival. -- Chris Murray
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality. -- Petronius
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. -- Seymour Papert
Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome. -- Bob Sorge
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect. -- Baltasar Gracian
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter. -- Marya Mannes
I know it's been 15 years since the Bills made the playoffs. Well get ready, man, we're going. We are going. -- Rex Ryan
And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made. -- James Ponsoldt
God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself. -- John Polkinghorne
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. -- Vladimir Lenin
Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard. -- Paul Smoker
It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it! -- Claude Monet
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. -- Robert Quillen
I believe that what it is I have been called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready. -- Jan Phillips
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. -- Dante Alighieri
Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. -- Groucho Marx
Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished. -- Hortense Powdermaker
While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it. -- Francis Ford Coppola
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end. -- Karl Kraus
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. -- Siegfried Lenz
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others. -- Francois Mauriac
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you. -- Sylvia Plath
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future. -- W. Somerset Maugham
When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit. -- William Zinsser
Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change. -- Valerie Jarrett
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made. -- Rico Lebrun
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists. -- Joan Robinson
I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts . -- Joe Biden
Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. -- Vannevar Bush
Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself. -- Ouida
A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote... -- Lord Byron
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research. -- Jean Piaget
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe. -- Antonis Samaras
When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me. -- Sadie Jones
Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new. -- Martin Buber
Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription. -- Richard Whately
Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details? -- Isaac Asimov
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself? -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today. -- Leo Steinberg
I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head. -- Leslie Stephen
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves. -- Florence Ellinwood Allen
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage. -- Marcel Duchamp
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art. -- Beatrice M. Hinkle
My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities. -- Ai Weiwei
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail. -- Aristotle
One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here. -- John Ruskin

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