Paul Klee Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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They gave me 18 experiments to complete in my 10 days in the ISS. That's a lot. Everyone told me I didn't have to complete all of them, that it wasn't expected of me. But I knew everyone was watching me, so I gave up meals and sleep and completed all 18 experiments. It's a very Korean thing to do.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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People trash talk me.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
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I like art. It's another way to rebel.
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Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
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Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
