Naum Gabo Quotes
The image my work invokes is the image of good – not evil; the image of order – not chaos; the image of life – not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
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I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Phone networks can capture life on our planet.
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I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
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A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist.
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During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.
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I've been waiting to get back in the Miller Lite Ford since Homestead. The team at the shop have put a lot of effort into building me a fast Ford Fusion for Speedweeks. Being in the Unlimited gives us a chance to see what we've got to work with for the Daytona 500. I think both myself and Joey in the No. 22 will be fast down here. I'm ready to go.
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If I were in a situation where I had to meet a pack of wolves and my family is with me, I'm going to be scared, but I'm not going to hide behind my son to protect me. They're going to hide behind me.
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I wanted to join a company where I woke up every morning and felt happy : I wanted to build a better solution to deliver happiness to the WebEx customers, that's it.
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The image my work invokes is the image of good – not evil; the image of order – not chaos; the image of life – not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.
