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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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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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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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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've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.
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It's inspiring to watch people love my dad and want to work with him. I feel that same investment in making sure people are happy.
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When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.
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One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.
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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.
