Willem de Kooning Quotes
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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Robert F. Kennedy used to say, 'Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not?'; that outlook has become a far too common and destructive approach to interpreting the law
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All of us have a lot of physical tics that we don't realize that we're doing subconsciously.
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Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.
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If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
