Marlene Dumas Quotes

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

  

  Mae West
  • Doing
  • Anything
  • Worth

• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Today
  • Countries
  • Within

• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • New
  • New York
  • Stock

• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Live
  • Free
  • Childhood

• I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Cowboy
  • Boots

• I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Color
  • Frustration

• We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can't fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Education
  • Change
  • Fight

• I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Realism

• Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Trying
  • Spiritual
  • Find

• I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Earth
  • Tree
  • Start

• I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Little
  • Clean
  • Little Bit

• When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • True
  • Father

• We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Character
  • Step

• There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Responsibility
  • Public
  • Must

• I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Environment
  • Protect
  • Improve

• China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.

  

  Ma Jun
  • World
  • Environmental
  • Cost

• Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Truth
  • True

• I believe that I've grown in my acting career because I've become more confident. I've become less worried about what people think. When I go into a meeting - 'audition', I have a different sense of self when I walk into the room. I'm here to give you my interpretation of your lines. This is my stage; I'm not waiting to be hired by you to be on your stage. We all might die tomorrow, so I'm going to have to live in my gift, today, and give you the best performance in this room, right now, in case this is the last time you get to see me!

  

  Brely Evans
  • Career
  • Self
  • I Believe

• When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • People
  • Stop
  • Evil

• I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

  

  Marlene Dumas