Ellsworth Kelly Quotes
I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
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The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
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When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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Globalization is a fact of economic life.
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Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.
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If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.
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No matter how hard we work, there is always a gap with Western brands.
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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
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Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.
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We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.
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I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.
