Quotes 161 till 180 of 561.
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
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I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
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I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
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I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
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I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
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