Agnes Martin Quotes
When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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Sometimes compromise is painful.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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I think it behooves them to find the votes, ... To have a small number of people dictate to this nation what they can do and can't do is just not acceptable.
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The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
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Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.
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When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power.
