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.Willem de Kooning
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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.
Kate Burton -
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.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
Jack Bowman -
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
Carine Roitfeld -
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
Jack Huston
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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.
Immanuel Kant -
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson -
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff -
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.
Samantha Power -
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.
H. L. Mencken -
I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
Ted Rall
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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.
Adam Mansbach -
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.
Kate DiCamillo -
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.
C. S. Lewis -
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.
Patricia Heaton -
My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S. E. Hinton -
I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
Quincy Jones
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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
C. L. R. James -
You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up.
Priscilla Presley -
There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
Adam Carolla -
Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
Mary Lou Retton -
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.
Willem de Kooning