Warren MacKenzie Quotes

Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.

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• Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

  

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• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

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• Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

  

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• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

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• My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

  

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• I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.

  

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• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  

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• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

  

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• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
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• Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.

  

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• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

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• If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

  

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• We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.

  

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• I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

  

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• The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.

  

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• When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.

  

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• People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

  

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• I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

  

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• However, more recently, there have been signs of some easing of underwriting standards.

  

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• There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.

  

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• I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

  

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• I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..

  

  Clyfford Still
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• Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
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  • Painting
  • Class