Pierre Bonnard Quotes

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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• I know what I've done, and I know who I am.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• I'm really obsessed with the past.

  

  Fisher Stevens
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• Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
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• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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• 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

  

  P. J. Soles
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• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.

  

  Kamala Harris
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• We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

  

  Brian d'Arcy James
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• Being on film is forever. Television, as well, just lives on and on and on, which is really exciting. But then with theater, it's like an experience. You have to be there that one special night that was like that to see that one performance that was really remarkable. It's more intimate as well. So I like them both.

  

  Bridget Regan
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• Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobe’s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobe’s mouth were, ‘You know I can kick your ass one on one.’

  

  Phil Jackson
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• What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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• I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
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