Jamie Wyeth Quotes
My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.
Quotes to Explore
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
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I do lots of activities. I hang out with friends.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
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My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.
