Augustus John Quotes
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
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Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She's all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she's a whole lot of woman.
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I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
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The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.
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No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
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No day is alike, nor should it be.
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There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
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Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.
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The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .
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A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.
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It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.
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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
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DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.
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A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
