Charles Willson Peale Quotes
Nature is silent only to those who know not how to interrogate her—to the man of inquisitive mind she offers ample instruction.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
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My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
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We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
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Cuanto no puede ser, casi siempre es un reproche a cuanto puede ser.
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The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
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Every frame of every film is from a particular time. So, if you make a film in 2017, the times can't not have a bearing.
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Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
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It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.
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I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.
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Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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Nature is silent only to those who know not how to interrogate her—to the man of inquisitive mind she offers ample instruction.
