Geoffrey Beene Quotes

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

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• I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Why
  • Childhood

• The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Boyfriend

• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Real
  • Painting
  • Personality

• A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Sad

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Acting

• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Way
  • Funny

• If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?

  

  Fat Joe
  • You
  • Know
  • Gay

• It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • See

• Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Courage
  • Being
  • Afraid

• Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.

  

  Waverley Lewis Root
  • Country
  • Want
  • Enough

• For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Better

• The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Black
  • Party
  • Security

• Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths.

  

  Andrew Harvey
  • Sea
  • Happens
  • Calm

• He'll get his share of carries, but we also hope that we can get him another five to 10 touches through the passing game with a little more space, as opposed to everybody sitting there lined up looking at him in the backfield. How that works out, we'll see.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Game
  • Works
  • Carries

• The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Liar

• I try to figure out how much of the character I can find in myself because you don't want to get outside of your skill-set.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Character

• I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

  

  Geoffrey Beene