Paul Klee Quotes
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
Quotes to Explore
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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Backbite, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
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The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course.
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I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.
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I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough.
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I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
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Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude.
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We have to focus on growing the economy, getting people working again, so they can put a roof over their heads to provide health care and education for their children and plan for their retirement.
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I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.
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I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.
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When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.
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My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.
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The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.
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We encounter and enter our richest, most humanly defining experiences by way of a tear in the fabric of things, because we are running late, or because we recognize, across a crowded room, a face whose lack of perfection allows a unique light to shine through and to stir us with uncommon wonder.
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I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
