Dead-set Quotes

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy. (Reba McEntire)
You English are never as thorough, never as decided, never as dead-set in your views as your cousins over the Channel. You are a people of compromises, of opportunism, of amiable and business-like settlements; you can even strike a bargain with your own conscience and live ever happy afterwards. ... This is no doubt a great virtue, because it has preserved you from great follies, and it is no doubt a great vice, because it has sadly refrigerated your enthusiasm and your "feu sacré.”. View quote
Oscar Levy
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure. View quote
Marcel Duchamp