Aaron Huey Quotes
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
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I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
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When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
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The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
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I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.
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At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.
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There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
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And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
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Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.
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Well If I could live my life again differently, there are things I would do and things I wouldn't do. Like drugs, I wouldn't deal with drugs and guns, I wouldn't deal with it, a whole lot of things, that's the truth
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My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.
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These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.
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Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
