Paul Klee Quotes
The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.
Quotes to Explore
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)
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It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.
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Take care of this moment.
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The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.
