Alice Neel Quotes
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
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Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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We seem to be able to be fully comfortable only when the remainder of humanity can be labeled as members versus nonmembers.
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The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of scholarship, but by the touch-stone of humanity.
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A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.
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The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.
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Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.
Etel Adnan -
I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself.
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Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
