William Dobell Quotes

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

William Dobell

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• My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

  

  Laila Ali
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• It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Work
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• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

  Earl Campbell
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• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Like
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• R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Been
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• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  

  Yancy Butler
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  • Did

• Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Time
  • Greed

• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Work
  • Persistence
  • Work Hard

• Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Me
  • Basketball
  • Run

• We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Trying
  • Chance
  • Take

• The dose makes the poison.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Poison
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• If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Day
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• Woman are complex creatures.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Creatures
  • Complex

• When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
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• The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

  

  James Madison
  • May
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  • Control

• We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

  

  David Elkind
  • May
  • Commitment
  • Abuse

• I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Life
  • Why
  • Job

• English people are always surprised I'm English.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • People
  • English

• People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • Running
  • Sports
  • Bother

• I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

  

  William Dobell
  • Character
  • Wanted
  • Paint