Alexander Calder Quotes
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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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.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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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.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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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.
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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.
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Overhead announcement at psychiatric hospital: Lithium is no longer available on credit.
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We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
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There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
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I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.
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Goya, Miró, Matisse, Bosch and Klee.
