Jean Arp Quotes
Structures of lines, surfaces, forms, colours. They try to approach the eternal, the inexpressible above men. They are a denial of human egotism. They are the hatred of human immodesty, the hatred of images, of paintings.. Wisdom is the feeling for the coming reality, the mystical, the definite indefinite, the greatest definite.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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No man fails who does his best.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.
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With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
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The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.
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Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.
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Structures of lines, surfaces, forms, colours. They try to approach the eternal, the inexpressible above men. They are a denial of human egotism. They are the hatred of human immodesty, the hatred of images, of paintings.. Wisdom is the feeling for the coming reality, the mystical, the definite indefinite, the greatest definite.
