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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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
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I started to work when I was really young. For me, friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me, and go watch a film with me.
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Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
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I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.
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There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.
