Max Beckmann Quotes
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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I never listen to music when I'm writing.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.
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I will declare when I am in the gravel, From the maintenance of gifts, From being numbered, from going to be a martyr In the reckoning of Saint Segerno. From a word when sin may be to me, Let there be no sigh from those that hear me.
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I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
