Thomas Kinkade Quotes
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
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The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.
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Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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Do you blame me, ladies and gentlemen, for being reluctant to deliver to them the message that is traditional on commencement day?
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Obviously a guy who plays as hard as he does and gets a streak going like that, I respect that streak. It's kind of a pitcher's duty if a guy has something going like that to give him a chance at it.
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Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.
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In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
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The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
