Piet Mondrian Quotes
Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.
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Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
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It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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Das Philosophisch-Werden der Welt ist zugleich ein Weltlich-Werden der Philosophie; ihre Verwirklichung ist zugleich ihr Verlust.
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Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.
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Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!
