Alex Katz Quotes
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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
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I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
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I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.
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I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
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I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
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I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
Gail Devers -
Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
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Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'
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Paint faster than you can think.
