Chuck Close Quotes
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.
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If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.
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I think Coach Kerr and his staff have done a great job with what they bring to the table.
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It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
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Adventure is a sign of incompetence.
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
