Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
Quotes to Explore
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.
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In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.
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It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.
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I want to be a good human being.
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If you're in the market for guidance, this is probably not a bad way to go. A lot of people will try to shame you into thinking you shouldn't be paying for help. But there's nothing shameful in doing it.
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People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.
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My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
