Ellsworth Kelly Quotes
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I never left doo wop.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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L'observateur est un prince qui jouit partout de son incognito. L'amateur de la vie fait du monde sa famille, comme l'amateur du beau sexe compose sa famille de toutes les beautés trouvées, trouvables et introuvables; comme l'amateur de tableaux vit dans une société enchantée de rêves peints sur toile.
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We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.
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I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.
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Time has always been very important in my work.
