Alexander Calder Quotes
You put a disk here and then you put another disk that is a triangle at the other end and then you balance them on your finger and keep on adding. I don't use rectangles - they stop. You can use them; I have at times, but only when I want to block, to constipate movement.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
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Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.
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It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
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You put a disk here and then you put another disk that is a triangle at the other end and then you balance them on your finger and keep on adding. I don't use rectangles - they stop. You can use them; I have at times, but only when I want to block, to constipate movement.
