Jean Dubuffet Quotes

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action

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• I always watch the work I do.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Work
  • Always
  • Watch

• I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Work
  • Night
  • Day

• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Culture

• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Work
  • Home
  • Game

• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Know
  • Years

• Writers are not meant for action.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Action
  • Writers
  • Meant

• In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Work
  • American
  • Military

• I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Work
  • Love
  • White

• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• 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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  • Mother
  • Connect

• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Think
  • Memory

• It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Work
  • Victim
  • Fault

• Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Work
  • Important
  • Fun

• If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.

  

  Alcee Hastings
  • Work
  • Horse

• I never wear makeup when I'm not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I've grown to really love the way I look without it.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Work
  • Makeup

• My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Time
  • Business
  • Mom

• I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up

• In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

  

  Jessica Alba
  • People
  • Culture

• I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Action