Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity.
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Fate will not be confined by paragraphs.
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Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
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We as the band are geriatric, and I've got one foot in the grave. But when I start to think about it in the quiet of the night, I'm filled with energy and I think that time does not proceed chronologically for us after all. Instead, we are bend back towards eternal youth and immortality.
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For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show up in my studio in the clothes that they want to be wearing. And often times, those clothes would be the same trappings people would see on television and find menacing.
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Petulant priests, greedy centurions, and one million incensed gestures stand between your love and me.
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The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
