Mark Tobey Quotes
My first lesson in relativity: ..we had a still life set-up to paint. Suddenly I saw that the pitcher was so big his hands outside the shape of a pitcher, then close in and the glass was so big. From that time on everything was all right. Tobey is remembering his Saturday morning painting class
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.
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They don't like their generation's music, so they find some that they do like!
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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You meet people in the business and wonder how compassionate they are.
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My first lesson in relativity: ..we had a still life set-up to paint. Suddenly I saw that the pitcher was so big his hands outside the shape of a pitcher, then close in and the glass was so big. From that time on everything was all right. Tobey is remembering his Saturday morning painting class
