Elaine de Kooning Quotes
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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I bat righty.
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
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We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
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I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
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The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
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Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
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I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.
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Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.
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As artists, Emily and I rely a lot on what other artists say about people they work with in the music business.
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I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!
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Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
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Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
