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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We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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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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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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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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Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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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.
