Hans Hofmann Quotes
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.
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It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
