Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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My father was a lawyer.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I dress for men.
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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.
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I was given some designer colors for ink pens a long time ago and I haven't used them, and I have some handmade paper, and I just have the desire to drip on wet paper. It reminds me of when I was seven years old and had my tonsils out, and one of the first artworks I made was on toilet paper with a colored pencil; it was sort of half paint and half colored pencil. But I got very involved with color and absorption and I think, you know, 78 is a good time to go back to the beginning.
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I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.
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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.
