Hans Hofmann Quotes
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
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On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.
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There are times I can't even figure myself out.
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Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.
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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.
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All that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
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In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.
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I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
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How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.
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Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
