L. S. Lowry Quotes
I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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[Donald Trump] is been very consistent on trade.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.
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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.
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I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.
