Morris Graves Quotes
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.
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I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
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From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
