Willem de Kooning Quotes
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.Willem de Kooning
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
Daniel Bryan -
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
Baz Luhrmann -
While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
Park Shin-hye -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
M. J. Rose -
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
Walter Kaufmann
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
Vince McMahon -
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
Malcolm Wallop -
I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
Adam Hicks -
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
Mal Peet -
For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
Harold H. Greene -
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
Rafael Nadal
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
Kaley Cuoco -
It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
Gail Collins -
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham Lincoln -
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
Naveen Jain -
I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
Zach Galifianakis
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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
Erykah Badu -
What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it!
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe -
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle -
More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.
Ted Morgan -
In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!
Eleanor Farjeon -
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
Willem de Kooning