Hans Hofmann Quotes
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
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If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
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What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
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I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
