Paul Klee Quotes
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.
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I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.
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Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. 'You cannot catch three fish with two hands,' the little man often said.
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Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.
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What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.
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Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.
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Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I would travel to that place.
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The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.
