Charles Demuth (Charles Henry Buckius Demuth) Quotes
Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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I want people to be able to give their voice.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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Most wars are not won in a single battle, what I’m looking forward to is changing the course this country is on. I don’t know if that happens in this election cycle or not.
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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
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What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.
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I was so lost back then,But with a little help from my friendsI found a light in the tunnel at the end.Now you're calling me up on the phone,So you can have a little whine and a moan.And it's only because you're feeling alone.
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Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own.
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I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids.
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Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.
