Emil Nolde Quotes
It was in mid-summer 1906. The colors of the flowers attracted me irresistibly and almost sudden I was painting. My first small gardens paintings were born.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.
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I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death.Every city and memory we whispered 'Here is where you rest.'Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my kneesAnd I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine:'You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.'
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Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
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It was in mid-summer 1906. The colors of the flowers attracted me irresistibly and almost sudden I was painting. My first small gardens paintings were born.
