Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
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I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
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In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters
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'Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.'
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If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.
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A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
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When you give a good offer, people take it.
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Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab mothers, this is one mother who not only loves her children, but also loves Israel's children.
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I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.
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I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.
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Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.
