Willem de Kooning Quotes
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.
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If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?
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Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'
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I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
