Oveta Culp Hobby Quotes
A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I paint energy, not the soul.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
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Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
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How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.
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A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.
