Donald Sultan Quotes
The closer you work from reality the more abstract things can get. Like if you just did a cigarette with smoke in a painting than that’s very abstract.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.
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I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.
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If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
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The closer you work from reality the more abstract things can get. Like if you just did a cigarette with smoke in a painting than that’s very abstract.
