Alexander Calder Quotes

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• I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Think
  • Actually
  • Radical

• I'm a giant Beatles fan.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Fan
  • Beatles
  • Giant

• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

  

  Karl Rove
  • May
  • House
  • Decision

• 'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Voice
  • Started
  • Positivity

• Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Control

• If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Smart
  • Little

• When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Me
  • Control
  • Loved

• I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Single
  • Air

• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Science
  • Crazy
  • Poverty

• Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Art
  • Age
  • Child

• Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Social
  • Terrorism

• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Home
  • Sports
  • Next

• You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Free
  • You
  • Never

• There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • New
  • Engineering
  • Engineers

• Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Effort
  • Growth
  • Struggle

• I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Reading

• I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Night
  • Businessman
  • Laughs

• I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!

  

  Christa Miller
  • Black

• When I go down to Comic-Con in San Diego, people remember me for some of the strangest things. They go on and on about it, and I reminisce about it, and it's great fun. It's interesting to see what people remember me for.

  

  Ray Wise
  • People
  • Remember
  • Interesting

• I'm not trying to make a particular weight. I'm just working out and doing what's best for Rozay.

  

  Rick Ross
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Working

• If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

  

  Anne Tyler
  • Writing

• Goya, Miró, Matisse, Bosch and Klee.

  

  Alexander Calder