Alton Tobey Quotes
Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know...
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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It is not 'scientism' to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust actually happened. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.
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We know that the hope was that the focus of the buildings would remain artistic. We've tried, not believing we're able to assuage any of those hurt feelings, to embrace the spirit of the place by making art a focal part of our environment.
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Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know...
