Ellsworth Kelly Quotes
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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I hate birthdays.
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We want to support Nashville, support the community there and be a part of it.
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Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
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You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
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Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
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I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.
