Sigmar Polke Quotes
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
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Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.
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One of my goals is to be Defensive Player of the Year. One of my goals is to be Rookie of the Year. And one of my long-term goals is to be walking across that stage with a jacket on and a nice little patch on it that says 'Hall of Fame.'
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.
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Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.
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There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.
