Willem de Kooning Quotes
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.
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Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.
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I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
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The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?
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Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?
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The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
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The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
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We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.
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Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
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There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.
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You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.
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Live we're a lot louder and noisier on the album. I think for the album we took a lot of time for the songwriting and we wanted to make good pop music, and I think there's plus and minuses to doing pop music and noise.
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Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
