Arshile Gorky Quotes
I have to go away, but with regrets and with the firm intention to come back soon. I consider most sound I am an individual Gorky – and it is my individual feeling which counts for the most. Why? I do not know nor do I wish to know. I accept it as a fact, which does not need explanation.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
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The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.
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I decline to accept the end of man.
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People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.
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Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
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One is always at home in one's past.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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I have to go away, but with regrets and with the firm intention to come back soon. I consider most sound I am an individual Gorky – and it is my individual feeling which counts for the most. Why? I do not know nor do I wish to know. I accept it as a fact, which does not need explanation.
