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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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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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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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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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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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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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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It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad.
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The one cool thing about being underground is that it gives you such freedom. You have to be so on top of it, releasing singles all the time, doing videos all the time, and I don't know if I'm ready to give up that freedom.
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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.
