Frank Stella Quotes
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I got through college.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
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We're constantly having to go head-to-head with the Bernie Madoffs of the world who just want more and more money.
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The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.
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A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
