George Tooker Quotes
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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Eu não vi o mar.Não sei se o mar é bonito.Não sei se ele é bravo.O mar não me importa.Eu vi a lagoa.A lagoa, sim.A lagoa é grandee calma também.Na chuva de coresda tarde que explode,a lagoa brilha.A lagoa se pintade todas as cores.Eu não vi o mar.Eu vi a lagoa...
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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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In order to stop the cycle of disenfranchisement, frustration, and discontent, dignity must be central, paving the way for a governance model that is affordable, acceptable, and applicable to various regional and cultural sensibilities.
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MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?SECRETARY CLINTON: What designers of clothes?MODERATOR 1: Yes.SECRETARY CLINTON: Would you ever ask a man that question? Laughter, applauseMODERATOR 1: Probably not. Probably not. Applause
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Μέγας γὰρ Ἅιδης ἐστὶν εὔθυνος βροτῶνἔνερθε χθονός,δελτογράφῳ δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ φρενί.
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We do have depression in the family, and I've experienced it as it pops up from time to time. It is easier to deal with when I have someone looking to me to do things.
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With money, who needs friends?
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I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.
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You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.
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I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
