Tommy Lee (Thomas Lee Bass) Quotes
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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All my books are optimistic!
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
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Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
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I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it.
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No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality. I am continually impressed by how difficult it is for people who have gone through the unspeakable to convey the essence of their experience.
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To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.
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It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.
