Clyfford Still Quotes
..the light suggests no particular time of day or night in the paintings of Paul Cézanne ; it is not appropriated from morning or afternoon, sunlight or shadow.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
Ralph Bellamy
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
Ildar Abdrazakov
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
Kal Penn
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Pablo Casals
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
Rafik Hariri
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
Zaha Hadid
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
Jacob Bronowski
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
La'Porsha Renae
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
Jackie DeShannon
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
Magnus Larsson
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
Cao Yu
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
Gavin Newsom
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
Pat Conroy
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
Dalai Lama
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
Harold Prince
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
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If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.
Ellen G. White
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Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.
O. J. Simpson
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Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
W. Somerset Maugham
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..the light suggests no particular time of day or night in the paintings of Paul Cézanne ; it is not appropriated from morning or afternoon, sunlight or shadow.
Clyfford Still