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

• I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• 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

• Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Money
  • Treat

• When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-law, and the first thing I thought when I saw everything that he had to do is, I thought, 'I would never, in a million years, ever want that job. You could not pay me enough money to have that job.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Money
  • Job
  • Father

• From my experience, I've been honest about who I am and what I believe and the motivation behind my music. But I've played it in arenas that are for all people. I've pretty much stuck to that model my whole career.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • Words

• I don't discount the privilege that comes with being the kid of two very great actors. All I can say is I'm very grateful that I've had their examples. And it's fun to get to share it with them.

  

  Zoe Perry
  • Fun
  • Grateful
  • Privilege

• 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