Kenneth Clark Quotes
A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
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There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.
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Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am.” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.
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I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
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A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
