Paul Klee Quotes
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.
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I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
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It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.
