Mark Tobey Quotes
Two men dressed in white jeans with white caps on their heads.. ..climbing over a large sign of white letters. Of course, the words spell something, but that is unimportant. What is important is their white, and the white of the letters.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
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You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions.
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An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.
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Two men dressed in white jeans with white caps on their heads.. ..climbing over a large sign of white letters. Of course, the words spell something, but that is unimportant. What is important is their white, and the white of the letters.
