Karel Appel Quotes
As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.
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When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.
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It's going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, 'How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?'
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Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.
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One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.
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No one's ever told me I needed to get a facelift or anything.
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My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.
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In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.
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One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.
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I put my energy, voice, and spirit into fighting for anybody who wants to speak their voice. I don't care what the right wing, the left wing, or the chicken wing has to say.
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The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
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As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
