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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
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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.
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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.'
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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.
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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.
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
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My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.
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The more people who game, the better for everyone.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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'Reverence for parents' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.
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SK will evolve and develop based on its corporate culture and human resources.
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My style icon has always been Sidney Poitier.
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Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.
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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
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I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.
