Mark Tobey Quotes
We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement.. ..we must concentrate outside ourselves.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear —The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
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It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.
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We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement.. ..we must concentrate outside ourselves.
