Wayne Thiebaud Quotes
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.
Quotes to Explore
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
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I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualified to have those rights restored to them.
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It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.
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Your body has something in the neighborhood of 40 trillion cells - quite a consulting committee. Call on it when you're confused or undecided. Relax quietly and ask your body what it has to say.
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If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.
