Willem de Kooning Quotes
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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I guess my break in America came a little too early. It would've been nice to have a few more years to find out what I'm like as an actor without a camera on my face.
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I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.
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The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.
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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
