Abe Ajay Quotes

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

Abe Ajay

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• Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • City
  • Play
  • New York

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Intuition
  • Paid
  • Instincts

• I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Music
  • Brain

• Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Matter
  • Decide

• Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Small
  • Grow

• Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Career

• We played against each other like puppets, swearing you got pull When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes Getting knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise Look in the skies for god, what you see besides the smog Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Eyes

• Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Die

• The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think it was after I had already done it a few years, when I went, 'Hey, interesting that this happens.'

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Done
  • Interesting

• In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • People
  • Effort
  • Drug

• I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

  

  Emma Watson

• There is something that has become part of my routine that I eat two or three times a week. Sushi. It exists in Europe but isn't very popular, and especially in L.A., I started eating it. It's both tasty and healthy.

  

  Marko Jaric
  • Popular

• A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Women
  • Real
  • Motherhood

• I was into Barbie and designer jeans.

  

  Carson Kressley
  • Designer
  • Jeans

• Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

  

  Enzo Ferrari
  • People

• Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

  

  Abe Ajay
  • Painting
  • Immediacy
  • Collage