Alexander Calder Quotes
to Mondrian: Maybe you should take all these red, yellow and blue elements off the canvas and let them hang in the air, so they can move. Mondrian reacted: 'Well, I think my paintings are fast enough already..'
Quotes to Explore
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
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I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
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No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.
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For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought, 'Anything is possible.'
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So much of the bitterness that the term 'McCarthyism' evokes refers to the probe begun in New Jersey in the summer of 1953 - both in the laboratories of Fort Monmouth and in the surrounding communities of Red Bank and Belmar, where some of the best scientists and engineers in America worked.
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to Mondrian: Maybe you should take all these red, yellow and blue elements off the canvas and let them hang in the air, so they can move. Mondrian reacted: 'Well, I think my paintings are fast enough already..'
