Maurice de Vlaminck Quotes
I wanted to burn down the 'École de Beaux Arts' with my cobalts and vermilions and I wanted to express my feelings with my brushes without troubling what painting was like before me.. .Life and me, me and life.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.
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I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.
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'This Is England 2015.' That would be ace. We could have prosthetics to make us look really old.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
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I wanted to burn down the 'École de Beaux Arts' with my cobalts and vermilions and I wanted to express my feelings with my brushes without troubling what painting was like before me.. .Life and me, me and life.
