Hans Hofmann Quotes
visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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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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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost.
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
