Ellsworth Kelly Quotes
Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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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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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.
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Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website.
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I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.
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Christian life is action: not a speculating, not a debating, but a doing. One thing, and only one, in this world has eternity stamped upon it. Feelings pass; resolves and thoughts pass; opinions change. What you have done lasts - lasts in you. Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.
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If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.
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Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.
