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.
Quotes to Explore
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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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.
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I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.
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I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
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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.
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.
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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.
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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.
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There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
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China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.
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I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.
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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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No matter how much you might feed off negativity, a positive message is always stronger.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.
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I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.
