Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
Quotes to Explore
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
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It's always inspiring when people all come together and be strong as a group. This is why I feel so strongly to put the message to people that we need to stand together in tough times.
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When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
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Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
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Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X's into both sides of my pick with something sharp, like a dart.
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I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them.
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I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral.
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The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don’t look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
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If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
