Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.
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Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
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There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.
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I stay around for two or three hours after every show signing and taking pictures with everybody, and people come up and say hi and they say, "I didn't know what to expect but it was so different to what I imagined, it was so cool". I want to believe they're not lying. You know so, some people don't get it, some people do.
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..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.
