Peter Doig Quotes
I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.
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I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
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Being treated by a doctor who specializes in your kind of cancer is so important, especially for those of us who have rare or very rare cancers. They will have access to newer treatment options that may be offered only at big academic cancer centers, so you don't miss out on treatments that could help you.
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Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.
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There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.
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Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
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I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.
