William Dobell Quotes

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

William Dobell

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Doubt

• I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Real

• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Kids
  • Identity
  • Expectations

• They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Star
  • Win

• I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Think
  • Sick
  • Then

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • True
  • Age
  • Be True

• Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Myself

• I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Live
  • Without
  • Activity

• The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Learn

• When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Up
  • Game
  • Golf

• There is no method but to be very intelligent.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Intelligent
  • Very
  • Intelligence

• When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Career
  • Door
  • Tragedy

• One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Progress
  • Lies
  • Tell

• If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Perfect

• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Reality
  • Energy

• I like to eat. I'm always on the edge of how much can I eat without looking too – you know. If I eat something salty, it makes me want something sweet. I eat something sweet, then I want salty. And exercise is not my thing, though I do it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Want
  • Know
  • Exercise

• But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Knowledge
  • Painful
  • Flames

• My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Want
  • Value

• I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.

  

  Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

  

  William Dobell
  • Time
  • Want
  • Paint