Max Beckmann Quotes
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.
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We're pretty interested in microbial communities on-board space stations. It's a closed-loop system. Our water is recycled; our air is recycled.
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The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably true of every theater artist. If you really want to see a performance of the show, wait three months.
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I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.
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I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
