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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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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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.
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Desire is a beast that must be fed!
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My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.
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I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!
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The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.
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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.
