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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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.
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You want hard workers. You'd be surprised how many people tell me, 'I don't need to work hard. I'm smart.' Really?
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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
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There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.
