Agnes Martin Quotes
I used to look in my mind for the unwritten pageif my mind was empty enough I could see itI didn't paint the planeI just drew this horizontal lineThen I found out about all the other linesBut I realized what I liked was the horizontal lineThen I painted the two rectanglescorrect compositionif they're just right
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.
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Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
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I used to look in my mind for the unwritten pageif my mind was empty enough I could see itI didn't paint the planeI just drew this horizontal lineThen I found out about all the other linesBut I realized what I liked was the horizontal lineThen I painted the two rectanglescorrect compositionif they're just right
