Agnes Martin Quotes
To live truly and effectively the idea of achievement must be given up. Put unsentimental piety first, turn your back on the world, and get on with it.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.
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Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
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I don't want to see crocs end up as boots, bags and belts. We're killing and consuming our wildlife icons.
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I am a woman above everything else.
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To live truly and effectively the idea of achievement must be given up. Put unsentimental piety first, turn your back on the world, and get on with it.
