R. B. Kitaj Quotes
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?
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Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
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Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
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Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
