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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I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
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I've got two daughters, and it's impossible for me to say one of them is a favorite.
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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.
