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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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, "Look who's talking".
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We got happy just taking the threes. After a tough game (a 95-89 loss at Detroit on Friday), you may not have the leg strength. That was key. We were trying to penetrate and kick. The shots didn't go down. Just don't blame it on shooting. You can never blame a loss on shooting. It's what you do defensively.
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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
