Matt Schulze Quotes

Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous.

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Up
  • Education
  • Control

• I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Want

• I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Live
  • Purpose

• The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Why
  • Knowledge

• In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Business
  • You
  • Waiting

• I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

  

  Edmund White
  • Book
  • Think
  • Perfect

• If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Different
  • Children
  • Power

• You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Children
  • Friends

• I've done some good work and some not-good work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Strength
  • Nation
  • Others

• It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Financial

• A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope. It is inferior in methodological rigor to none of the modern sciences. All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Alone
  • Philosophical

• ‘When I say 'mind,'’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Mind
  • Brain

• It is only life and love that give love and life.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Life

• Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Today
  • Chaos

• Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.

  

  Stuart Chase
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Animal

• The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

  

  Jeremy London
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Rest

• I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

  

  Norman Foster
  • Habit
  • Unexpected
  • Sources

• Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous.

  

  Matt Schulze