Paul Klee Quotes
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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To become a token woman-whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters-is to become something less than a man … since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while.
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I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
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I'm always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That's how I measure the success of any artistic endeavor.
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Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.
