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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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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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 black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
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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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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
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Dream, believe, work hard and succeed.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
