Jean Dubuffet Quotes
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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It's all the same to me. The Yenisei swirls, the North Star shines, as it will shine forever; and the blue lustre of my loved one's eyes is clouded over by the final horror. - The House on the Fontanka, 19 August 1939
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California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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Man Writes on Sand.
