Edward Hopper Quotes

on the question 'Why selecting certain subjects over others': I do not exactly know, unless it is that I believe them his chosen subjects to be the best mediums for a synthesis of my inner experience.

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• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
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• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

  Lara Logan
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• When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.

  

  Oleg Cassini
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• Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

  

  Aaron Ruell
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• The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
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• I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.

  

  Parker Harris
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• When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.

  

  Hans Matheson
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• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
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• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
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• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

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• My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
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• These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

  

  Jacques Derrida
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• In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

  

  Neri Oxman
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• Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who you're rapping to. A lot of my music is really, really, really humbled down. I don't have as much money as the average rapper, but I'm still good.

  

  Russell Llantino
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• on the question 'Why selecting certain subjects over others': I do not exactly know, unless it is that I believe them his chosen subjects to be the best mediums for a synthesis of my inner experience.

  

  Edward Hopper
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