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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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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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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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.
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Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.
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I’m no friend of the players. I work at a distance.
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Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
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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.
