Geoffrey Beene Quotes
When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
Quotes to Explore
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
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Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.
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I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.
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Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
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When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
