Gene Green Quotes
I represent a blue-collar district: people who work at petrochemical plants and machine shops.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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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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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
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I dress some of the most successful women in the world, and meeting these women rubs off on you. A few years ago, the woman was someone I imagined in my head. Now they're real. It's important my work evolve along with me and that I show more facets of myself.
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People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.
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I represent a blue-collar district: people who work at petrochemical plants and machine shops.
