Willem de Kooning Quotes
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
Randy Harrison -
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde -
I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
Wen Jiabao -
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
Abraham Verghese -
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes
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Television isn't my career. Business is.
Fran Tarkenton -
Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank -
Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
F. Lee Bailey -
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.
Lionel Trilling -
Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. He saved hundreds of thousands of lives, are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so.'
Antonin Scalia -
In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
Dawn Steel
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My heart is with the WNBA. I've had success in the league, I've loved the league. I'm a true fan of the league.
Anne Donovan -
When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again.
David Cassidy -
Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
Ali ibn Abi Talib -
I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!
Marc Warren -
For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable.
Lynsey Addario -
Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.
Jim Crace
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We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.
Adolph Green -
I'm so honored to have been a part of something so meaningful that helped to keep so many families and loved ones connected.
Oleta Adams -
I've been the longest-serving police commissioner in the history of the department, but it's time in my life to move on. I'm ready for new adventures, new challenges.
Raymond Kelly -
We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.
Paul Biya -
An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
Willem de Kooning