Edward Betts Quotes
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.Edward Betts
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
Edgar Meyer -
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.
Adam Hamilton -
If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
Floyd Skloot -
I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
Gabriel Basso -
We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.
Katee Sackhoff -
I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
Kangana Ranaut
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
Daniel Barenboim -
Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
Barry Silbert -
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
Ramana Maharshi -
For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
Nancy Kress -
I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
Raj Kapoor -
I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.
Barack Obama
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
E. M. Forster -
Having three brothers in the league has been real fun for the whole family, and we're just trying to keep it going.
Chris Gronkowski -
Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.
Bob Beckel -
I think reality television has made the fashion industry and the beauty industry, any industry - frankly, just life - it has made life seem much different than it really is.
Emily Weiss -
The president, it seems to me, stands out as the one person in our system who is in a unique position where the checks on any lack of integrity there are more important than for anyone else in the system of government.
Charles T. Canady -
Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
Will Smith
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I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.
Kim Cattrall -
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
Charles Mackay -
Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money.
Christine Lavin -
To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.
Jamie Wyeth -
You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.
Alex Katz -
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.
Edward Betts