Jean Dubuffet Quotes

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.

Jean Dubuffet

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• Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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• Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

  

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• He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

  

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• I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

  

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• Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.

  

  Said Nursi
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• I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

  

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• The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

  

  Donald Trump
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• I feel like people in the industry are scared to take that chance because it's not easy to design plus-size clothing.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
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• Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

  

  Chita Rivera
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• That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.

  

  Alton Brown
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• Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.

  

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• When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

  

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• You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

  

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• 'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

  

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• I remember once saying in a television interview that the only things I hadn't been in were the opera and the ballet. Two days later, I got a call from Lord Harewood, of the English National Opera, saying "Would you like to be in 'Ariadne auf Naxos?'"

  

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• I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

  

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• Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

  

  Martin Luther
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• It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
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• I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.

  

  Jean Dubuffet