Frank Stella Quotes
I wanted something that was direct – right to you eye .. ..something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
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Netflix, I love you.
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
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In order to heal oneself, we must learn how to forgive.
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As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.
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The first 12 bars of 'Pre-Occupied' explains my entire career.
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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
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I wanted something that was direct – right to you eye .. ..something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away.
