Piet Mondrian Quotes
I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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I'm sick of running away from things.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
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We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.
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My parents used to play me this album when I couldn't go to sleep. It was called 'Deep Forest.' I think it was a self-titled record. It's actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.
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A while ago, I was starting to get bored with my routine, so I tried Spinning and fell in love with it instantly. I go to class three times a week, without fail. I always get there early so I can sit in the front of the studio, and I'm ready to go as soon as the instructor comes in.
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Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.
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I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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As I said, it was inevitable, and I don’t let laws of nature upset me.
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Maybe just an ice cold brew what's a beer, that's the devil in my ear, I've been sober a fucking year and that fucker still talks to me, he’s all I can fuckin' hear 'Marshall, come on, we'll watch the game, it's the Cowboys and Buccaneers!'
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We are full of dreams ... We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.
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The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.
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For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough respect for me to be able to survive the industry.
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The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.
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Tough guys toughen up when faced with adversity. So he flexes his gag reflex and steps inside.
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I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
