LeRoy Neiman Quotes
When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.
Quotes to Explore
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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But time has set its maggot on their track.
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Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.
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When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.
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I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.
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When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.
